Restaurant Offers Free Food to Coast Guard Due to Government Shutdown

U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer Samuel Knoeppel, center, and Randy Haba, bottom right, approach to Willie Schubert of Pollocksville, N.C., on a stranded van during Hurricane Florence in Pollocksville on Sept. 17, 2018. AP Photo/Steve Helber

A Michigan restaurant owner who is irate over the government shutdown is offering Coast Guard members free food.

“They have car payments now, they have house payments now, they have to pay for their kids’ braces now,” Joe Durm, the owner of Java Joe’s Café, said in a statement obtained by WPBN. “This is what irritates me to no end.”