Lower thirds:

00:02 Report by Benjamin Alvarez Gruber
00:14 Beth Chikobe | World Central Kitchen
00:37 Kelly Shand | Librarian

Script: 

(Archive material WCK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUOotFAdA2k) 

00:00
(broll handing out food, tent) Lunch time in this park in the U.S. capital. A tent has been installed to hand out warm meals, snacks and water for federal workers who, due to the federal shutdown, are working without pay. 

+++ Beth Chikobe, World Central Kitchen +++ 
"Many of them have been without two paychecks now, some of them a full cyce. Many of them are still in the office right now so that is a lot of who is coming out today of folks who are exempted and are still working so we are hoping to catch a mix of people while we are out here this week. 

(broll Kelly talking with me) Some found this tent by chance while others, like Kelly, found out through friends about this new food distribution point. 

+++ Kelly Shand, Librarian +++ 
"I am grateful that they are coming and they are giving us sandwiches and snacks and water, you got to stay hydrated. Food is something that we will be concerned about with the forlough. (Weißblitz) I am glad they are here, I just wish they didn't have to feed us." 

The librarian, who works at the Library of Congress, is frustrated with a lack of willingness on Capitol Hill to end this shutdown. 

+++ Kelly Shand, Librarian +++ 
"Frustrated definitely, a little angry that they are not doing more to fix this and to talk to each other and to negotiate. Bored certainty because I'd really want to come into work, I like what I do, I am good at what I do." 

The government shutdown is already the second-longest shutdown in history. And there is no end in sight. And there is an additional concern for food banks: Food assistance used by more than 40 million U.S. citizens known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will not be distributed from November. 

With states administering the programmes, many of them have pledged to use their own funds to cover any shortfall, however the federal government has warned that they will not be reimbursed.