It is beyond belief that our president is continuing his unconscionable government shutdown. We have hundreds of thousands of workers who have been affected along with their families, who are suffering with no income.

What with nine federal departments shuttered already and the fall-out mounting — trash and unsanitary conditions at our national parks, Coast Guard members being denied pay, compro- mised security at our airports, insufficient numbers of air traffic controllers, delays in government transactions, families unable to pay their bills, and those who found part-time jobs to help ends meet ordered to return to their jobs without pay.

What kind of man would cause such incredibly callous sanctions within his own country?

It must be a man who doesn’t have a conscience and had a rich daddy who coddled him.

Our country is under a national threat bigger than anything Trump fabricates. He is the threat.

Like he said, he owns this.

Mary J. Culvyhouse

Kaneohe

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