Shutdown Impacts Grow

Furloughed and unpaid federal workers from around the state were bracing for more financial uncertainty while also receiving emergency help from food pantries to feed their families as the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history entered its second month and 32nd day on Tuesday.

Members of Oregon's Congressional delegation, including Democrats Sen. Ron Wyden, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, called on the president to end the shutdown during an appearance Friday at the Oregon Food Bank in northeast Portland.

Bonamici said she has voted with the House on numerous bills with bi-partisan support to re-open the government, but they've been continually blocked by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, who refused to put them up for a vote because they didn't include Trump's wall funding in full.