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Politics. department of homeland security say they are fully prepared to support the state of the union. and there is growing concern for overworked and underpaid federal airport employees. this is about safety. in san jose, the city down hail approved a plan to give short term no interest lens to help them pay for food, gas and rent. ed lavendera has more on the steep price americans are paying for government dysfunction. >> reporter: in washington, federal workers wait in line for food. >> when i saw there was a free hot meal for people who have been affected by the shutdown, i decided to ...

For overworked and unpaid federal airport employees. ed lavendera has more on the steep price americans are paying for government dysfunction. >> reporter: in washington, federal workers wait in line for food. >> when i saw there was a free hot meal for people who have been affected by the shutdown, i decided to come down and get -- you know, take advantage of that. >> thank you for being here. >> reporter: the chef's foundation is feeding thousands of federal workers going without pay. coast to coast unpaid federal employees are turning to charities for help. but the effects could be even mor...

We have reached the point that our government is not functioning as it was intended. the separation of powers is about to be thrown out of the window by this off the cuff declaration of national emergency. he probably has a leg to stand on legally. it is not within the spirit of how these things are supposed to go. it could set us on a further downward spiral of government dysfunction, because, as lisa murkowski says, somebody might try the same thing the next time around. one thing we have all learned is a lot of these emergency powers lying around up there on the shelf on capitol hill it is ...

>> they make it seem so good. i would love to shut down goldman sachs. no, listening to the conversation, the thing that strikes me is we're the country that won world war ii. we defeated fascism. we defeated the japanese and we launched this complicated thing. we shut down our government because we can't decide if it's a concrete wall or a steel fence or a row of ferns. it's like a sign of government dysfunction. seems to me the answer is just sitting in front of everyone which is the wall for the daca deal and the reason that has not gotten done is because both sides have loaded up a bunch o...

Than that. we can't refer to our political opponents on the other side of the aisle as losers and clowns. we have too big of issues to solve in this country than to just be partisan all the time. >> i don't think anybody would disagree with you. n in the audience, people under 30. they have seen nothing but government dysfunction. what can you tell them about whiwhy they should have faith in u.s. government? >> i think young people have to engage. when you look at the issues we have to solve. social security, health care, it's the thing that young people need to be concerned with. >> that's se...