Special San Francisco trash is headed to the White House

Buckets of locally sourced San Francisco trash are heading President Donald Trump's way.

On Saturday, Reps. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, and Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, and volunteers from the San Francisco Dog Owners Group weathered winds and heavy rain to clean up trash from Ocean Beach and Lands End, KQED reported.

The beaches are just two in the long list of federal sites that have been impacted as a result of the government shutdown, now on its third week. Without staff, some national parks have been in disarray. The National Park Service has even tapped entrance fees to pay for expanded operations at popular sites, officials said Sunday.

The shutdown has had graver consequences too; on Christmas Day, it delayed an investigation into the death of a man at Yosemite National Park, KQED reported.

Even San Francisco Public Works crews took it upon themselves to handle overflowing garbage cans and pick up trash near Lands End and the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Residents wanted to help as well.

"This is basically citizens standing up and saying, 'If you guys can't do it yourselves because of the shutdown, we will definitely help clean up the parks,'" Sally Stephens, who chairs the dog owner's group, told KQED.

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