Nation's Capital Closed for Business: GOP Shutdown Locks Out America's Working Families
While the House GOP-engineered government shutdown will have devastating effects on our nation's veterans, women with children and federal workers furloughed without pay , America's working families visiting the U.S. capital were locked out of the national parks and monuments paid for by their hard-earned tax dollars.
Here are some photos taken by Ashley Lewis and Sean Savett, fellows in the AFL-CIO Media Outreach department:
World War II Memorial
National Museum of American History
National Museum of Natural History
J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building
Merry-go-round outside National Air and Space Museum
National Mall
Smithsonian
Freer Gallery of Art
National Air and Space Museum


