We coach basketball teams this time of year and baseball in summer, walk our dogs and families in our neighborhoods, and work like you, our neighbors, to raise our families as we see fit.
We’re also furloughed federal employees, innocent victims in a long-running fight over the proper role of immigration in the United States. As federal employees we have, as they say, no dog in this fight as employees, but rather are beset by political dogs not under our control.
I acknowledge this is a personal perspective, but President Trump and his Republican Party own this manufactured shutdown.