PREVIEW

United States Senator Jeff Merkley (Democrat of Oregon) stands in front of a billboard displaying programs and areas of the government left without any funding after the first week of the Trump Administration, at a weekly Democratic Senate Caucus Press Conference in front of the Senate Chamber Merkley referred to the sudden halting of federal funding for services including the payment of several areas of federal workers, the funding of veterans services, medicaid in may areas, and various others outlined below.