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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Friday marks time 9 of the national authorities shutdown.
“It's not bully for the American people, our economy, and for those national employees that are indispensable workers,” Democratic Representative Jim Costa said.
The authorities has initiated important layoffs crossed respective agencies, including Homeland Security and Education. Those layoffs bash not number the thousands of employees they person already furloughed.
“The bulk of Americans enactment hard each day. They unrecorded from paycheck to paycheck, and this intelligibly is thing that we person to hole sooner than later,” Costa said.
The USDA has furloughed 42,000 people, which accounts for astir fractional of its workforce. This comes aft Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO Ryan Jacobsen said they already importantly reduced their unit earlier this year.
“I cognize radical deliberation of USDA and lone ‘food,’ but it's beyond that. I mean, there's each the nutrition programs related to the USDA, but besides the Forest Service positions crossed the federation and, astir importantly, present successful our backyard,” Jacobsen said.
Jacobsen says the Central Valley agriculture manufacture has not taken a important hit, but that could change.
“If this goes connected for aggregate weeks oregon possibly perchance months, that becomes a batch much of a bigger concern,” Jacobsen said.
He added that, close now, the Farm Service Agency is not accepting oregon processing immoderate farmers’ required biology compliance applications.
“That does decidedly dilatory things down arsenic we determination person to immoderate of those deadline dates towards the extremity of the year,” Jacobsen said.
So far, measures to extremity the shutdown person failed successful the Senate 5 times.
Republicans chose not to reconvene this week, saying there’s thing to negotiate.
“We're going to spell backmost again adjacent week and I anticipation the Republicans volition travel back, reconvene the House of Representatives, due to the fact that that's the lone mode we tin beryllium down and enactment retired a compromise,” Costa said.
