While the failure by Congressional Republicans to avoid a shutdown is deeply alarming, this breakdown at the federal level will not affect our City’s ability to deliver critical services to our residents.

San Francisco’s public safety agencies will continue to operate as normal. Our residents can feel safe knowing that our police and fire stations will be fully staffed and emergency response services will be fully functioning. Muni services will not be impacted, street cleaning will move forward as scheduled and parks managed by the City will remain open to the public.

San Francisco will move forward. But in Washington, D.C., the reckless decisions by Republicans will have impacts. Republicans maintain control over both legislative branches and the White House. Their pursuit of an extremist immigration agenda—one that holds the fate of 800,000 DACA recipients hostage—has created unnecessary chaos.

We are urging Congress to do the sensible thing and provide a real path forward for a generation of residents who have only known this country as their home. Republicans cannot continue to play politics with the lives of so many people.