Quote of the Day

“I had a migraine the whole last week when I was trying to assess this. It’s really disturbing when it’s all just because of politics. They’re taking families’ livelihoods away.” — Yurok Tribe Vice Chairwoman Susan Marsten on the federal government shutdown’s effect among Native American bands. As Reuters reported, “While some tribes have used income from casinos to defray the cuts and others have leveraged assets not in federal trust to borrow needed cash, those less fortunate have been left to take the suspension in government services on the chin.”