Скачать или смотреть Food pantry opens at SLC airport to support federal employees working through government shutdown

(16 Oct 2025)
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Salt Lake City - 16 October 2025
1. Wide of travelers and employees at a TSA security checkpoint at Salt Lake City airport
2. Wide of travelers on escalators at airport
3. Wide of food supplies organized at Salt Lake City airport for TSA food bank initiative.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Wyatt, Executive Director, Salt Lake City Dept. of Airports:
"We have this very unusual situation, really the second one that has occurred since I've been here, which is a government shutdown in which most federal employees who work at airports have to work but aren't getting paid."
5. Various of food items and toiletries at an organized food bank in SLC airport
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Wyatt, Executive Director, Salt Lake City Dept. of Airports:
"So what you'll see behind us and in the hallway are kind of a range of household items that are available to all of those workers to come and take whatever it is they may need. We will be including gas cards, gift cards."
7. Canned food items at food bank
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Wyatt, Executive Director, Salt Lake City Dept. of Airports:
"People got to pay the rent, they got to put, you know, pay their car insurance and everything else that goes with it. Uh, so I, I'm sure that if this goes on for any lengthy period of time, there will be signs of frustration."
9. Food bank Items on a table
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Erin Mendenhall, (D), Mayor of Salt Lake City:
"Life's not fair. We as Salt Lakers and uh in particular over the last several years have seen tragedy, we've seen um different circumstances were emergencies play out when people are impacted for no reason of their own doing, but this is how we step up."
11. Employees and travelers at a TSA security checkpoint
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Erin Mendenhall, (D), Mayor of Salt Lake City:
"These are our neighbors. Whether you know them or not, these federal employees are Utahns, they are Salt Lakers. And we have a responsibility to do whatever we can. And this is a creative approach, it might not even be the last."
13. Travelers at TSA checkpoint
STORYLINE:
Salt Lake City and its international airport have teamed up to open a food pantry to support federal employees working through the government shutdown.

Employees from the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection and other agencies have access to free food, toiletries and home goods for as long as the shutdown lasts.

Mayor Erin Mendenhall told reporters Thursday that many federal workers are living paycheck to paycheck and that she believes the city has a responsibility to step in and support them.

"We have a responsibility to do whatever we can," said Mendenhall. "This is how we step up."

AP video by Hannah Schoenbaum

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