Alex Wagner

But the last time Chuck Schumer saved Republican asses, that didn't go over so well either.

And it's like we can't keep like Democrats can't keep doing the same thing over and over again because the administration is acting with impunity.

And this is the first time there's a little bit of soft shoe back and forth with Democrats over an issue that really matters.

They'll go bankrupt because of chemotherapy, as AOC explains to us.

This is very real.

And I will say, as someone that spent a lot of time with furloughed federal workers in the last prolonged government shutdown, people who had been working for the federal government for decades, who were in line...

at soup kitchens to get canned food because they could no longer afford their groceries.

There is a group of people who are doing the hard work of government who are going to get real fucked for every day this goes on.

And those lives are real.

Those people are real.

And man, it is a thankless job, especially right now, filled with peril.

So like, you know, my heart and my thoughts go out to like the reality they're living as well.

The reason-

My mother came over here is because my grandmother was offered a job with the Library of Congress.

And the US government got my family out of Burma, got my grandmother a job.

And the reason I'm on this earth in some ways is because of the federal bureaucracy and federal government work.

And that was one of the best periods of her life.

They were saved from a country that was and continues to be in the middle of chaos because of...

Government work and it was good work and it was important work and it like offered her a pension and and it just to see, you know, how those workers are treated now and like the gutting of that service is just so sad and also shameful because it's one of the things that I think has made this country great.

Well, there's nothing clean about it.