Payless Paydays continue…
Healthcare Program Coverage Bills begin going out with double digit INCREASES…
Lawmakers , who are supposetd to be taking care of Federal Workers do NOT Trust each other stand by their word on any agreement so far….
Both Democrats and Republicans;icans are under pressure to NOT GIVE IN to Anything that isn’t their ‘s…
The shutdown is in its fourth week. All workers are entitled by law to back pay once the government reopens, including those who are furloughed. But the Trump administration has moved money around to pay some of the workers who are required to come in, mostly in the military and law enforcement. About 750,000 federal workers have been furloughed without pay during the shutdown. Workers whose jobs involve protecting life and government property have been expected to continue working without pay, including air traffic controllers, Transportation Security Administration officers and employees of law enforcement agencies.
Johnson expressed frustration that Democrats and Republicans could not reach a compromise on their competing bills.
“We’re talking about making sure that 2.8 — I think that’s about the number — 2.8 million federal employees aren’t worried about getting a next paycheck,” Johnson said on the Senate floor Thursday. “That so overwhelms, quite honestly, the smaller differences.”….
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Johnson said on the Senate floor that he was willing to change his bill to pay furloughed federal workers as well as those who must keep working, obviating one of Democrats’ concerns about it. But Democrats also want to bar Trump from firing federal workers during the shutdown.
Van Hollen said he spoke with Johnson about trying to resolve the differences between their bills and that he plans to get in touch with Johnson’s team.
“He seemed … willing to agree that no federal employees should be punished for a shutdown they have nothing to do with,” Van Hollen said after the vote. “The issue he was hung up on was whether or not to allow Donald Trump and Russ Vought to fire federal employees during the shutdown.”…
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The federal government has been shut down for all of October, as Republicans and Democrats in Congress remain at an impasse over a funding measure. Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies before they expire at the end of the year. The GOP says it won’t negotiate over those subsidies unless the government is funded.
The Trump administration has moved to repurpose some funding to pay certain employees as the shutdown drags on. Active-duty troops, deportation officers, air marshals and 70,000 federal law enforcement agents are continuing to get paychecks. Funding for troops is coming from unused Pentagon funds, the administration says, while funding from Republicans’ tax and spending law is being used to pay the Coast Guard. Other sources of funding are unclear….
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