Tag: Anonymity

The Daily Caller, the scaffolding on which Tucker Carlson hung the entrails of his journalistic career, got some money quotes from an anonymous alleged employee of the administration*. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. Senior officials can reprioritize during an extended shutdown, focus on valuable results and weed out the saboteurs. The superiority complex about how families "like mine" are scrapping to make ends meet is pure modern conservatism. I don't know where the people who work with Native Americans, and especially those who work in the various health clinics that service our indigenous peoples, rank on this person's sliding scale of essential employees. Maybe this person thinks the people who work those jobs are part of the 15 percent of federal employees worth their salaries. Native American tribes rely heavily on funding guaranteed by treaties with the U.S., acts of Congress and other agreements for public safety, social services, education and health care for their members. Because of the shutdown, tribal officials say some programs are on the brink of collapse and others are surviving with tribes filling funding gaps. About 9,000 Indian Health Service employees, or 60 percent, are working without pay and 35 percent are working with funding streams not affected by the shutdown, according to the Health and Human Services department's shutdown plan. The agency delivers health care to about 2.2 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives.