Well, I know they are and I don't really quite understand why.

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January 24, 2019 to Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times on CNBC's Squawk Box (; ; ; ; ; cite news |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=Commerce secretary doesn’t understand why unpaid federal workers use food banks |first=Damian |last=Paletta

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I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade, but I am pro-sensible trade, not trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker and to the American manufacturing community.

800,000 workers. If they never got their pay -- which is not the case, they will eventually get it, but if they never got it, you're talking about a third of a percent on our GDP. So it's not like it's a gigantic number overall.

The other thing that was fascinating to me, was there was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there. Not one guy with a bad placard.

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Well, I know they are and I don't really quite understand why.

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