According to the Houston Chronicle, the 200 employees working without pay to keep the astronauts at the International Space Station safe are now being asked to scrub their own office toilets due to the government shutdown.

“This is our reality at the Johnson Space Center,” a NASA manager tweeted on Thursday.

“We now have no custodial services while we work without pay to keep the International Space Station operating.”

The tweet included photos of signs asking remaining employees to bring their trash to designated bins and asking for volunteers to help “clean toilets, wipe toilet seats, handles, and sink faucet handles with disinfectant wipes.”

⁦@JohnCornyn⁩ ⁦@SenTedCruz⁩ ⁦@RepBrianBabin⁩ This is our reality at the Johnson Space Center. We now have no custodial services while we work without pay to keep the International Space Station operating????#EndTheShutdown pic.twitter.com/QjDDpJuxwo

— Elizabeth Blome (@SpaceEliz) January 24, 2019

The tweet was directed at Texas’ Republican Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, and U.S. Rep. Brian Babin, a Republican whose district includes the Johnson Space Center.

With Johnson employees set to miss their second paycheck of the shutdown Friday, about 50 people took to the streets last week to protest, begging Congressional leaders to reopen the government so they could get back to work — and get paid.

Even postdoctoral fellows at NASA, who were assured the shutdown wouldn’t affect them, have found themselves out of funding and therefore out of work because of the budgetary impasse. Four of the 203 NASA postdocs work out of the Houston center.

Custodial services have reportedly been reduced at NASA’s Johnson Space Center since about 94 percent of the center’s employees are currently furloughed.

A representative from the center’s hired custodial service, Native Resource Development, told the newspaper they were going to ask for “voluntary layoffs” within their own business this week because of the reduced workload.