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Experts Give an Update on the Region's Economy as Government Shutdown Reaches Day 30
Nearly 1,000 TSA agents among 18,000 Minnesota federal workers face missed rent and food insecurity amid the longest federal shutdown on record, officials said.
- Union leaders told senators on Thursday that Minnesota federal workers are missing rent and facing a $50 daily late fee as the shutdown hits day 30.
- With USDA communication reduced, Department of Agriculture officials said longstanding federal partnerships have been disrupted and meat inspection and animal-disease work face interruptions.
- We estimate right now that we are losing two to four billion dollars a month of economic activity, McNab said, as roughly $4 in $10 of regional economy depends on federal paychecks.
- Minnesota receives roughly $9 million a month for WIC, and officials say those funds are expected to last only through the third week of November; Attorney General Keith Ellison sued the USDA over SNAP funding and urged use of a $6 billion contingency.
- The Senate’s Subcommittee on Federal Impacts convened Thursday as Sen. Erin Maye Quade explores legislative fixes and Governor Tim Walz said state funds remain untouched but require Legislature approval.
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Federal workers plead for lawmakers to ‘hammer it out’ as shutdown reaches a month
ST. PAUL — Union leaders told senators on Thursday, Oct. 30, that Minnesota’s federal workers are now missing rent and are taking home boxes of food at the end of their shifts. The sobering testimony on Thursday comes as the federal government shutdown nears a month. It was the latest meeting of the Senate’s Subcommittee on Federal Impacts. Mark Johnson, of Duluth, representing TSA agents with the American Federation of Government Employees, sai…
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