The lawyer showed up at the hot dog stand in a suit nearly every day during the government shutdown Isaac Stein; Isaac Stein/Instagram Ever since he was a little kid, Isaac Stein wanted to run a hot ...

Isaac Stein makes his living as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, working mostly on his own, writing retirement plan regulations in a Washington office building. Since the federal ...

At the corner of First and M streets, Northeast, a lunchtime crowd snakes down the sidewalk, with some waiting close to an hour for a hot dog. At the front stands a man in a black suit and red tie, ...

Tax attorney Isaac Stein is furloughed from IRS Chief Counsel’s office during the government shutdown, but he’s still working, spending his days manning Shyster’s Dogs, a D.C.-based hot dog cart. It’s ...

Oct 24 (Reuters) - Isaac Stein makes his living as an attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, working mostly on his own, writing retirement plan regulations in a Washington office building. Since ...

A customer buys lunch from furloughed federal worker Issac Stein, 31, at his hot dog stand weeks into the continuing U.S. government shutdown, in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 24, 2025.