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In the United States, the budget crisis has paralyzed the country for more than a month. The shutdown is wreaking havoc and hundreds of thousands of civil servants no longer receive salaries, families are struggling to feed themselves. On site, food banks are being organized and the queues continue to get longer.
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For miles, an endless line of cars tries to reach a food bank near Los Angeles. Same waiting scene in Maryland, because in recent weeks, new beneficiaries in need have been arriving. Federal employees have been unemployed for 37 days now because of the shutdown and budgetary paralysis.
“You know, with my rent due next week, everything is good to go. For the moment, I have not received any salary this month”explains Summer, an employee at the US Department of Commerce. The situation is such that in some places, such as Texas, citizens themselves provide free food in front of their homes.
Distributions to airports for air traffic controllers. They are forced to work, but like the rest of the civil servants, they are not paid. “For the first time, we received a zero on our pay slip. Now we’re going to have to worry about how we’re going to pay our bills.”deplores Michael, air traffic controller at Los Angeles airport. Of the 60,000 air traffic controllers in the United States, several thousand are absent, tired of working without pay. As a result, very significant delays are occurring in all the country’s airports and users are at their wits’ end.
Tomorrow, thousands of flights will be suspended. Announcement of an administration in impasse. To resolve the situation, the Democrats are demanding a dialogue with the president. But Donald Trump intends to convince Republican senators to come through in force to vote on the budget.
