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Today is the twenty-first day of the Trump Shutdown and the damage it inflicts on families and communities across this country continues to grow. More than 800,000 federal workers are without pay, and today will be the first missed paycheck for those families. Many of our civil servants are working without pay. Telling them they may have to file for unemployment is outrageous and just wrong.
The House today approved two more pieces of legislation to reopen key parts of the federal government and provide certainty to American families affected by the Trump Shutdown. The bills fund the Departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation, as well as the FDA, through September 30. They ensure that families can receive food stamps and that tenants living in HUD supported housing don't face eviction. Both bills mirror bipartisan legislation that passed the Senate last year on a 92-6 vote.
The Trump shutdown has also had dangerous housing implications for many hardworking families. It could lead to evictions of senior citizens and the disabled, displacing the most vulnerable among us.
This legislation would finally re-open these Departments and allow more than 20,000 furloughed employees at DOT and over 7,000 at HUD to receive backpay and return to their mission: serving the American people.
We can begin this bipartisan path by passing the bill before us, which passed the Senate in September by a vote of 92-6. This bill would open the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration and adequately fund these services through the end of the fiscal year.