Columbia News

Rep. Mark Alford, U.S. Congressman representing Missouri’s 4th district since 2023, used his social media platform on October 14, 2025, to address the ongoing federal government shutdown and its impact on workers and military families in the Kansas City area.

In a post published at 21:01 UTC, Alford stated, "33,000 federal workers in the Kansas City area, 6,000 right at the IRS facility, don’t know when they’ll be called back to work. Our military families nearly went unpaid until @POTUS stepped in. All because Chuck Schumer refuses to act. This shutdown is hurting real people."

Later that evening at 22:06 UTC, Alford criticized Democratic proposals regarding Medicaid funding with another post: "Now Democrats want to take this funding away to provide Medicaid to illegal aliens with YOUR money! Give me a break!"

On the same day and time, he also discussed his visit to Cass Regional Medical Center amid what he referred to as "day 14 of the Schumer Shutdown." He wrote: "On day 14 of the Schumer Shutdown, we visited Cass Regional Medical Center. We discussed the importance of the Rural Health Transformation Fund—the $50B for rural hospitals we delivered in the Working Families Tax Cut—to facilities like this with CEO Chris Lang."

The current government shutdown has left tens of thousands of federal employees uncertain about their return to work and has raised concerns about delayed payments for military families. Congressional disputes over spending priorities have been cited as central issues behind the impasse.

Mark Alford was born in Baytown, Texas in 1963 and resides in Lake Winnebago. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.