Furloughed and unpaid federal employees rally outside Senator Ted Cruz’s office to protest the government shutdown on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Houston.

Rap artist Trae the Truth, center left, gathers with his ReliefGang, while working on cleanup efforts after Hurricane Beryl, on Saturday, July 20, 2024 in Houston. They bowed their heads in prayer to honor the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

When a crisis hits Houston, we don't crumble. We rise and rally.

It's what we do when natural disasters try to break us. We're a city that knows how to recover and rebuild when hurricanes flood our streets or winter storms freeze our homes.

Now, we face a different type of crisis. As many as 30,000 federal employees in the Houston area have been furloughed as part of the federal government shutdown that started Oct. 1.

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