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at a Washington restaurant Friday night, the staff cheered and applauded Nancy Pelosi
As she left her table at a Washington restaurant Friday night, the staff cheered and applauded Nancy Pelosi. What a week she had had. Said a waitress in near tears,"We need someone who will fight for us." The Speaker carried a small white paper bag, I know not what was in it.
https://twitter.com/ElizabethDrewOH/status/1089000380938240000
Inside the White House, aides and advisers are despondent over a wasted month, feel outplayed
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/politics/white-house-aides-despondent/index.htmlInside the White House, aides and advisers are despondent over a wasted month
Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump announced in the Rose Garden on Friday that his quixotic bid to secure more than $5 billion for a border wall would end with no money, he was met with applause from his Cabinet secretaries and senior aides.
But the clapping belied a pervasive sense of defeat.
Instead of emerging victorious, many of Trump's allies are walking away from a record-breaking government shutdown feeling outplayed, not least by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The President is now more unpopular than he was before the shutdown began, sacked with blame for the 35-day lapse in funding.
Friday's announcement was an extraordinary comedown that left many in the White House and those who support Trump marveling at the futility of the preceding four weeks of brinkmanship. In the eyes of some aides and outside advisers, an entire fruitless month has passed that cannot be recouped, a waste of the most valuable asset a White House has: the President's attention and time.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/politics/white-house-aides-despondent/index.html
How the shutdown ended: Americans just had it up to here
Finally and suddenly, America had had enough.
The drizzle of effects of the government shutdown morphed into a downpour, a winter storm of disruption, dysfunction and desperation that shocked stubborn politicians into action.
The 35-day shutdown was supposedly going to linger for months because President Trump’s base insisted on a wall along the border with Mexico and the Democratic base demanded that federal workers return to their jobs without condition.
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The startling about-face happened because the shutdown almost overnight came to seem dangerous: an economic threat, a shock to the safety of the skies, and a political punch that unsettled both parties.
In a 24-hour flurry of events that added up to a breaking point, flight attendants warned that high absenteeism among air traffic controllers who weren’t being paid posed a threat to passengers’ sense of safety. Long delays hit several major airports because of control-tower staffing shortages, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Ford and other major manufacturers warned that the shutdown was delivering a hard hit to the nation’s economy. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce alerted politicians that the travel and tourism industries were suffering harsh consequences. Thousands of Internal Revenue Service workers who had been ordered back to work to process tax refunds stayed home, many saying they couldn’t afford to get to their jobs without pay
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-shutdown-ended-americans-just-had-it-up-to-here/2019/01/25/11a19848-20d4-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html?utm_term=.d26e5c72eb66
14,000 of 26,0000 IRS employees didn't show up for work
About 5,000 IRS workers cited hardships and did not show up for work and 9,000 others were not able to be reached, according to two congressional aides briefed on the matter.
Meanwhile, 12,000 thousand of the 26,000 in the division — which includes processing centers and call centers — who were called back from furlough showed up for work, according to one House Democratic aide.
They were called back in anticipation of the filing season beginning.
According to one House Democratic aide, the Level of Service(that's the number of calls answered) in Wage and Investment has been around 35%. The plan was 80% for filing season.
The average time to answer the phone was 25 to 40 minutes.
For context: Last filing season it was 7 to 10 minutes
The Washington Post first reported the numbers.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/government-shutdown-month-2019/h_f7d2518eae7fd7112631b2a3a53588a2
M_W word of the day: Myopic: lacking in foresight or discernment : narrow in perspective and without
lacking in foresight or discernment : narrow in perspective and without concern for broader implications
Rescuers were combing the woods when they heard the missing 3-year-old boy call out for his mom
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/us/missing-boy-casey-hathaway-found/index.htmlIt took three harrowing days for a search team to find Casey Hathaway alive.
Facing heavy rains, gusty winds and low visibility, rescuers and law enforcement combed the difficult Craven County, North Carolina, terrain -- focusing on up to 1,000 acres of heavily wooded areas.
On day three, a tip led the search team to a spot where they were able to hear the 3-year-old's voice calling out for his mother, Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes told reporters at a press conference Thursday night.
They followed his call 40 to 50 yards into the woods, through water, to find Casey tangled in vines and thorns, Hughes said.
Casey was playing with two other relatives in his great-grandmother's backyard in Craven County on Tuesday, but didn't come inside when the others did, CNN affiliate WTVD reported.
His family searched for him for 45 minutes before calling 911, Hughes said.
"He was walking in the woods back there and we can't find him," his great-grandmother told the 911 dispatcher. "The other ones come through the house but left him there and he walked off somewhere and we can't find him."
Search and rescue teams from across North Carolina immediately came together to brave the treacherous terrain and cold temperatures hoping to find Casey. The search went across three days.
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REVEALED: Three-year-old Casey Lynn Hathaway was stuck in THORN BUSHES, soaking wet and calling for his mom when rescuers found him alive, two days after he went missing from his grandmother's backyard
Casey Hathaway, 3, was found by rescue crews in Craven County in eastern North Carolina on Thursday night
The little boy is now with his family and being evaluated at a local hospital
He had been missing for more than 48 hours by the time he was found
During the search, concerns were raised about the extremely cold temperatures
Casey was only wearing a coat and sweatpants when he vanished
Casey had been playing with two other children in his great-grandmother's backyard when he disappeared into the woods behind the home
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6630659/Missing-three-year-old-boy-alive-North-Carolina.html
federal worker with kid on breathing tube now regrets voting for trump
15-month-old Harper was born prematurely and needs a breathing tube to live.
Her dad Chris isn't being paid amid the shutdown and tells @RandiKayeCNN voting for Trump is a choice he regrets "100%."
Chris' message: "Put us back to work, so we can get paid."
https://cnn.it/2WfslEK
https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1088628694422151168
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