Shutdown in the States: ‘We Need to Start Taking This Seriously’
President
States depend on federal money to pay for food stamps, welfare and programs such as the Child Care and Development Fund Plan, the National Flood Insurance Program and the
"We don't know how it goes," Howard said. "We don't know how it gets resolved. And states are as curious as everyone else."
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"That's when we push the panic button," Weiss said. "We are starting to get more concerned. We need to start taking this seriously."
Weiss' office recently asked the heads of state agencies to assess how long they can remain open without federal dollars and which of their programs are most essential. Their responses are due Friday.
A spokeswoman for the state
"We spent a lot of money for a marketing campaign because of the black eye that the federal government imposed on us last time."
"Those people need that money," Frans said of the Minnesotans who depend on federally funded programs. "What do we do? How do we plan to help these people when payments get cut off?
"We need to accept the fact that this shutdown is going to last a long time."
The federal
That has
"We are closely monitoring actions at the federal level and any potential impacts on
Federal funding for Medicaid, the joint federal-state health care program for low-income people, is not immediately in jeopardy because
The shutdown effect on national parks is familiar to states.
There is no guarantee that states will be reimbursed for those outlays, Howard said. It's up to
Four years after the two-week shutdown in 2013, for example,
In
"People plan for years and years in advance to see these iconic landscapes that we have," the Republican lawmaker said. "We spent a lot of money for a marketing campaign because of the black eye that the federal government imposed on us last time."
As a result of the shutdown, 420,000 federal employees are working without pay and 380,000 have been furloughed, according to a Democratic report from the
The economies of
Hundreds of Marylanders are applying for unemployment insurance benefits because of the shutdown, the
City officials across the country also are worried.
Because the
"This is affecting people's lives," he said. "We're not just talking about the 800,000 federal workers. Our most economically vulnerable and hardest-working citizens won't be able to pay rent."
If the shutdown extends into February, he said, cities are going to have to transfer money from other programs and services to make sure their residents are fed and sheltered.
"The shutdown needlessly complicates what should be standard transactions between different levels of government," Wallace said. "We don't have a lot of experience with shutdowns that have lasted this long. Cities are going to have to figure out how to get by until the government resumes."
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