What a government stop will mean to the Californians

From Rachel Becker., Christen., Alejandro Lazo., Kayla Mihalovich and Jean QuangCalmness

This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

John Loretiig remembers the dirty baths, the overcrowded trash bins and the community of people who gathered to clean the Joshua Tree National Park last time the US government closed.

For more than a month than December 2018 until January 2019Thousands of employees of the national park were extinguished all over the country – but the Trump administration kept Open many national parksS

Unsupported, visitors passed through desert and historical sitesThey camp where they did not have to, and vandalized plants and buildings in parks in California. Thehe junk “And stool – accumulated. In the days after the exclusion was completed, the park staff discovered at least 1665 lumps of toilet paper flooding only the death valley, where approximately half a ton of human waste were left outside the toilets.

“It was crazy to leave the gates open and tell the staff not to appear in the park – for our public lands and all our special places in this country to be unprotected,” said LaurethigRetired Ranger at a law enforcement park and a non -profit joshua friends.

Now, confronted with the prospect of another forthcoming exclusion, retired park services, including Loretig, they call to keep the gates locked in national parks and historical landmarks.

They are among the many Californians who are confronted with the braking, which is expected to start Wednesday, unless Democrats and Republicans can make a deal until 23:59 on Tuesday.

Countries are currently appearing away from each other, although President Donald Trump and the leaders of the Congress are Expected to meet todayS Democratic leaders in Congress require Republicans to turn Medicaid cuts made In the Trump Tax and Expenditure Bill earlier this year and expanding the Biden era subsidies used by the majority of participants in the Affordable Care Act.

In response, the Trump administration is floating dismissal of federal workers Massively, if the shutdown occurs.

“Democrats hope to use one of the leverage they left in Washington at the time to clarify what they are advocating for,” says Tad Kuser, a professor of political sciences at UC San Diego. “And the question is: can they oppose the political and political pain that Donald Trump hopes to impose by threatening more dismissals on civil servants?”

The federal government closed three times during the presidency of Obama and Trump. Each of them is difficult for government employees who are either blurred or obliged to work without pay.

About 150,000 Federal employees work in Californiawithout counting members of military service, who will also do it Go without pay during exclusion.

In the past, when confronted with possible federal exclusions, the state had an emergency plan to try to avoid interruptions in certain services. At the end of 2023, he plans to pay early Federal food care for grocery to pre -provide assistance to families in the event of suspension.

But this year, there is still no such commitment from the Ministry of Finance, as the governor of Gavar Gavin Newo weighed the possibility of prolonged exclusion.

“There is no open long -term loan, which can be assumed that the common state fund compensates for any shortage of the Federal Fund,” said Finance spokesman HD Palmer.

Here’s a look what Californians can expect if an exclusion happens this week.

Social Security and Health

Most Californians should not worry about the federal exclusion, which will affect their social security benefits or access to health in the near future.

About 6.5 million Californians receive benefits through the Social Security Administration and these inspections are expected to continue to exit during exclusion.

But customer service may suffer depending on how many employees are said to stay home, according to the National Social Security Committee and Medicare.

That Includes “Benefit Verifications, Earnings Record Corrections and Updates, Overpayments Processing, and Replacing Medicare Cards. The Level of Disruption Will Depend On How Many (Social Administration Dems ‘Essential’ and ‘Non-Sessecental’ During the Shutdown, “Max Richtman, The Organization’s President, said in a written statementS

Medicaid and Medicare, who pay for health care for people with low incomes, people with disabilities and adults, are compulsory programs that are exempt from the annual budget loan process.

Jan Emerson-Shea, a spokesman for the California Association of Hospitals, said that “basic services” as insurance payments to hospitals and doctors will continue.

However, some discretionary programs such as food and benefits for women, babies and children may be influenced by exclusion.

A group that can be disproportionately affected by even short federal exclusion are local and local populations. Many of the 723,000 American Indians living in California receive health care in clinics funded through federal subsidies. Clinics are often small and can have very few reserves to withstand a financing pause, said Nanette Star, director of the California Consortium for the Urban Indian Health.

“Even a short exclusion can mean that employees, the reduction of services, the delay in patient service,” Star said.

Airports and travel

You will be able to fly and ride during the exclusion of the government, but you may experience more delays.

This is because the air traffic controllers and the transport agents are among the civil servants who are expected to appear for work without receiving pay. The longer the exclusion excludes, the more likely the system is to strain and the workers to call the sick.

The American Travel Association, which is advocating for the industry, has released a statement last week, which includes a survey showing that many people will cancel or delay the trip during braking, which claims to break through the economy.

“The shutdown is completely prevented Spirit of the American Travel Economy-Who 1 billion dollars every week – and affects millions of travelers and businesses, while putting unnecessary tension on an exaggerated federal workforce for travel, “said Jeff Freeman, president of the organization.

Wild fires and disasters

The federal exclusion will not submit firefighters, but it can delay the money they pay for future disaster preparation.

Nick Shuler, a Cal Fire spokesman, said the agency does not expect the stopping to influence its “ability to respond and aggressively attack fires” and will continue to work as usual. In the past excludes, he said, firefighters of US forest services are still available for response in emergencies and have indicated the “healthy mutual assistance system in California”, which guarantees that the resources respond independently of jurisdiction.

Still, he warned that what supports the engines today may not pay for the prevention of tomorrow: “Any interruption to provide funding, which supports fire prevention and fire resistance, can have negative impacts,” he said.

The Newsom Office said the Federal Emergency Management Agency will maintain “basic life -saving operations” during suspension, but state payments will retain recovery efforts and recovery will be detained. This means that the Californians can see the first responding, but are confronted with a delay in recovery or recovery projects.

Other scientific agencies, such as the National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration and the geological survey of the United States, may face interruptions that affect disaster readiness in California, the governor spokesman said.

National parks

National park supporters are worried that the Trump administration will send home workers again, but left the gates open.

This is a “recipe for even more persecution,” said Kate Gracinger, a communication manager at the Western Priority Center, an environmental intercession group. “This time it will be worse than last time, simply because the parks are already fighting.”

It refers to the federal staff shortens the Trump administration, carried out earlier this year. The National Park Protection Association calculates that The National Park Service has lost 24% of its permanent staff As Trump’s second term began and left thousands of seasonal positions unfinished.

If an exclusion happens, the association designs daily losses of $ 1 million in revenue from park fees and $ 77 million for the Gateway communities that surround them.

The moral of workers in the national park is already bad – and the exclusion would make it worse, said Bernadett Johnsonformer chief of Manzarar’s National Historicalwhere, during World War II, the US government closed thousands of Japanese Americans.

“The attack was just so fierce. And I think the federal officials are demonizing themselves because these lazy bureaucrats we are not… breaks my heart to watch,” Johnson said. “The people left behind are taking all this work now because the work does not go away.”

A spokesman for the National Park Service said the agency is reviewing and updating the plans for the expiration of funding.

However, it can be fired, Loretiig in Joshua Tree said he was ready.

“I still have an attic (full) toilet paper, garbage bags, bleach, cleaning materials, gloves in anticipation of the next event – which, you know, can be upcoming.”

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