Today is the ninth day of Jon Ossoff’s government shutdown and Ossoff just voted for a seventh time to keep the government shuttered, inflicting pain on Georgia veterans, families, and small businesses.
“Jon Ossoff is knowingly hurting Georgia’s small businesses and ripping away critical government services from Georgia veterans, farmers, and families all because he wants to give free healthcare to illegal aliens and appease his far-left supporters in California,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
Today, Ossoff’s leader Chuck Schumer said, “Every day [of the shutdown] gets better for us.” The shutdown is part of a coordinated, months-long campaign with radical activists, and Ossoff is holding firm on liberal demands including free healthcare for illegal aliens, $1.5 trillion in new wasteful spending, and cutting $50 billion in funding for rural hospitals provided by the Working Family Tax Cuts.
Jon Ossoff’s government shutdown has:
- Closed VA regional benefits offices and halted its career counseling programs.
- Hurt small businesses in Georgia and especially those near military installations suffering from less demand.
- Halted new USDA farm loans to Georgia farmers.
- Paused a key SNAP program that doubles food benefits for low-income Georgians.
- Forced food safety inspectors, FBI officers in Atlanta, ICE agents, air traffic controllers, TSA agents, active duty troops, customs agents at Georgia’s ports, and Bureau of Prisons correctional officers to work without pay.
- Furloughed 3,800 civilian workers at Robins Air Force Base.
- Left 5,000 active-duty service members stationed at Robins Air Force base to work without pay.
- Forced essential workers at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield to work without pay.
Hard-working Georgians are already feeling the pain:
- Alonzo Sirmans, Army Veteran: “It’s really a tough time. It’s an impact on people’s livelihood.”
- Jasmine Jamil, owner of Subs and Salads Junction: “No business, how (will) I survive? I have to pay the rent. Rent is not going to stop.”
- Kahealani Apaisa, employee at Wings & Philly: “On a regular day basis, a lot of military people are coming in here. But then ever since the whole situation with the government and everything, not a lot of people have been in here lately.”
- Tiffany Holley, owner of Divine Beauty Bar: “[I]f we don’t get clients, we don’t get paid.”
Background:
- Ossoff previously voted to shut down the government, delaying paychecks to military service members, and risking veterans’ healthcare.
- Ossoff also voted to shut down the federal government earlier this year.
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