Ashley Allison: My Eyebrow Tech Says They Have to Let Go of Techs Because Clients Don’t Have Any Money

Allison: “Can I just say that I live in Washington, D.C., and almost four weeks ago, when the government shutdown ended, I was leaving CNN and I was in an Uber and the Uber driver asked me, ‘How long do you think this is going to last?’ And I was like, ‘I‘m not sure.’ And he‘s like, ‘It‘s week one and I‘m already struggling.’ He wasn‘t on SNAP. And he was an independent contractor. And he‘s struggling because there are collateral consequences. So I actually am not going to be a hack for the Democrats or the Republican right now. This is having massive impact. I went and got my eyebrows done the other day, and my eyebrow technician was like, ‘They‘re going to fire two technicians from here because all of our clients don‘t have money to come.’ She‘s not on SNAP.”
AIDALA: “That‘s a thing? The eyebrows?”
SIDNER: “Listen, the eyebrows look good.”
AIDALA: “That’s a thing?”
Allison: “This is in a moment of transparency. But I‘m saying that to say — I‘m saying that to say. I‘m saying that to say, for people who — you think that like an eyebrow, a lash technician, a beautician is not feeling that? They have clients. Clients have to have money to pay them.”
SIDNER: “Restaurants, the same.”
Allison: “Restaurants have — like, D.C. is hurting and there are people that work for the federal government, not just in Washington, D.C., across the entire government. And so this is not just going to impact SNAP benefits or recipients, it‘s going to impact the entire American population.”
SIDNER: “Yeah. And we will see what happens now that there is going to be this massive disruption in the skies as well.”