Approximately 800,000 US government employees in the course of the budget freeze, no salary for more than a month. The impact of the so-called Shutdown are dramatic to the whimsical. An incomplete selection.
In the US Etatstreit vote on two proposals for compromise after the Senate, with no solution in sight: Neither the draft of the Democrats nor is the proposal the Republicans could achieve a majority. Now, the majority leaders of both parties in the chamber, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer want to find together a way out of the crisis, in the center of the claim by US President Donald Trump for $ 5.7 billion is for a wall on the border to Mexico. Meanwhile, the effects of the longest Shutdown in the US history, has about a quarter of the Federal authorities, lame, felt, becoming stronger.
FBI agents are sounding the Alarm
For the approximately 800,000 employees of the affected Federal agencies, a majority of whom must continue to work without pay, the situation is always precarious. Also, the 13,000 FBI agents get for weeks, no money. Although the government will provide employees with full-time salary is paid in arrears, but for employees without the financial burden is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
The Shutdown also affects the morale of the German Federal police warns FBIAA President Thomas O’connor
“FBI agents should not have to in the supermarket shelves to give, because you point with your government, your family not feed”, scolded the President of the Federal Association of the FBI agents (FBIAA), Tom O’connor, on Wednesday.
In addition, the budget claims lock the global Anti-terrorism activities of the Federal police and the defense intelligence operations by other States, so O’connor. In addition, anonymous FBI employee defendants, according to a communication from the FBIAA, currently, the authority could not afford to pay informants, and the Translator nor the drugs for covert operations buy.
Invitation to hackers
With every day that the budget freeze is lifted, grows in Washington, the concern about attacks on the digital infrastructure. The Cyber – and infrastructure security Department of the US homeland security Ministry announced last week that almost half of their workforce had been furloughed. The rest of the staff work without pay. “This is a risk for our country,” tweeted the for home protection, the competent Committee in the house of representatives.
Last week, the British cyber security firm Netcraft reported that since the beginning of the financial barrier of more than 80 of the government websites used for encryption had been certificates and is not renewed expired, including the Ministry of justice. A spokeswoman for the US courts disagreed, however, of the representation. No website of a Federal court, not even the of the by Netcraft as an example, referred to court of appeal, was affected by the Shutdown.
Airport staff will remain at home
U.S.-according to media reports, more and more employees of the national transport safety authority (TSA), call in sick. You are one of the more than 400,000 Federal employees that have to work in spite of wage loss. The Union, AFGE, which represents some of 670,000 government employees, including more than 40,000 TSA employees, has filed because of the budget freeze against the government action. The Shutdown was a “massive security risk”, it said in a statement. Numerous TSA employees have already handed in her notice, and others have announced to do so.
However, not only the security personnel at airports suffers from the dispute in Washington. In an open letter to the trade unions of air traffic controllers, pilots and flight attendants warned, we could not calculate with the Shutdown risk inherent in “once”. It was not foreseeable, “at which point the whole System collapses”. In the case of air traffic control personnel is therefore lowest for 30 years.
Members of the trade Union AFGE at a Demonstration against the Shutdown on 10. January in Minneapolis
Two Washington universities offer by the government to a standstill affected employees free Tickets to basketball games and the Zoo in Oregon with free admission for government employees promotes, is likely to only be a consolation.
Court proceedings are on hold
The financing blockade has also put the U.S. justice system to a halt. As the Washington Post reported, delay of all civil processes at the Federal level, including those Whistleblower cases. Among the Affected, among other things, all Ministry of justice staff, prosecutors. “It’s a little demoralizing, and the more time passes, the worse it is” – quoted by the radio station NPR, the President of the National Association of assistant U.S. attorneys.
Some court procedures are also indirect consequences of the Shutdown will be delayed. So, according to NPR lawyers are not able to visit sometimes their clients in prison, since there is a shortage of human resources. According to U.S. media blackout for more than 40.000 hearings before the so-called immigration courts moved also report since the beginning of the budget.
Setback for research
As CNN reported, many scientists work on research projects for U.S. Federal agencies such as NASA or the National Science Foundation.
Due to the Shutdown of NASA also lacked the resources to staff a major astronomy conference in the country in Seattle. In addition, several U.S. media reported in early January, the NASA and ESA developed, the damaged Hubble space telescope could, for the time being will not be repaired, because the trained staff had been on leave of absence. After about a week of the failed camera has been set, however.
Contrary to initial media reports, the defective Hubble space telescope could be repaired despite the shutdown
“Every government can still interfere with research projects, or delay, lead to uncertainty in the face of new research and the access of scientists to data and infrastructure of the authorities to reduce”, had warned the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific society, in December. “The American innovation system relies on sound investments in science and technology to the Public good serve,” it said in a communication
Save the whales! As long as it goes
Among the more curious consequences of the partial Government shutdown, the action of animal rights activists, the Shutdown would affect rescue operations in the sea. As the news Agency AP reported, employees of a to help US-wide network of animal protection groups in Distress whales, seals and other marine mammals, only inadequate. The reason is the reduction of funds for competent weather – national oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA).
Recently, 100 of 411 living Atlantic right Whale in front of US were sighted East coast
Thus, an investigation of current inventory levels and places of residence of the Atlantic Nordkapers, of an endangered smooth Wales, in the Wake of the shutdown has been interrupted, quoted by AP, the marine biologist Regina Asmutis-Silvia. The results of the study are important, in order to take appropriate rescue actions.
Shutdown or If the wedding has to wait
Also prior to the future married couples, the consequences of the tug-of-war between Republicans and Democrats will not Stop. Because the Congress funded the Supreme court is affected in the capital, it pairs currently, no marriage licenses.
After such a case, made in December by U.S. media reports, caused a sensation among Washington mayor Muriel Bowser signed an emergency law that allows it to your office temporarily, to marriage, to issue permits. The Name of the law is – no joke – “Let Our Vows Endure (LOVE) Emergency Amendment Act of 2019”.