Jim Verquist

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Innovator. Changemaker. Entrepreneur. Brookline, MA. Founder of Citizensgov. https://citizensgov.org/

Email Title: How the government shutdown impacts VA

Email Body: As you may be aware, funding for some government agencies, including portions of the Department of Veterans Affairs, expired at midnight this morning.

President Trump opposes a lapse in appropriations, and on September 19, the House of Representatives passed, with the Trump Administration’s support, a clean continuing resolution to fund the government through November 21. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate due to unrelated policy demands.

During the current lapse in funding, the vast majority of VA benefits and services will continue uninterrupted, but the government shutdown is not without consequences to VA. Here is what you need to know:
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Poster from London collective called, “Everyone Hates Elon.”

Poster shows Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute while riding in an open roof Tesla, with the words, "Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds.” “Tesla The Swasticar.”

$That’s the infraction point. That’s the place where you have to look within yourself and ask, “Am I the kind of person who will keep going?” Will you break more things? Break bigger things? Are you willing to break the thing that nobody wants you to break? Because at that point, people are not gonna be on your side. They’re gonna call you crazy. They’re gonna say you’re a bully. They’re gonna tell you to stop. Even your partner will say, “You need to stop.” Because as it turns out, nobody wants you to break the system itself. But that is what true disruption is. —Miles Bron$