“I had to be a mastermind,” Deborah Rider told me Saturday in Glen Burnie, where Maryland Food Bank volunteers handed her some fresh and canned vegetables to augment her grocery shopping. “I learned how to juggle things. The first thing I did was call my lenders; they need to hear from you. But I need to give [credit] to Navy Federal Credit Union. They said right away to federal workers, ‘We’ve got you.’ They were phenomenal.” Navy Federal cut Rider a break on her car payment and, because she was a direct deposit customer, advanced her the first pay she missed as an interest-free loan. The bank that holds her mortgage was not so helpful. But, Rider says, Navy Federal’s program helped her get by until the Trump Shutdown ended.