Lot of government employee’s ain’t getting paid in a highstakes game of chicken between Trump /Republican and Democrats in the US Senate….
Other things ARE beginning to slow down also….
Doanld Trump is off traveling to Israel and Egypt…..
He ain’t worried about getting paid…..
And?
Polling says Democrats are NOT getting blamed for this….
They are NOT issuing lay off memo’s and holding off pay checks….
President Donald Trump and lawmakers in Congress remain deadlocked heading into a third week of shuttered federal agencies. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but lack the votes in the Senate to defeat a filibuster of legislation to fund ongoing operations. Democrats insist that Trump and the GOP must cut a deal to preserve health insurance subsidies as part of an agreement to reopen the government.
The shutdown has already caused nationwide flight delays, closed taxpayer help lines at the Internal Revenue Service, snarled permitting approvals at the Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department, and shut off access to national parks.
Workers vital to national security and protecting government property remain on the job unpaid, but others — some 750,000, according to congressional bookkeepers — have been furloughed. The Trump administration laid off some 4,000 workers Friday….
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The first wave of missed paychecks is likely to hurt the underlying economy in many communities. And the longer other services remain shut off, the more the shutdown’s effects will spread.
Consumers are already facing mounting economic uncertainty. The last government shutdown — a 34-day closure during Trump’s first term, the longest closure in U.S. history — shaved $11 billion off the country’s economic output, according to the Congressional Budget Office….
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Across the country, food banks are stocking up on provisions and community service organizations are telling at-risk clients to warn their lenders of the potential for missed payments, leaders of the groups told The Washington Post. Small business owners are keeping a close eye on their foot traffic. Federal workers are preparing their families for some financial belt-tightening.
“Families around the country are already seeing the impacts, and it’s about to get a whole lot worse,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) said Friday. “The American people are going to feel a lot more pain and miss a lot more paychecks in the near future.”…
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Federal workers are bracing for the financial consequences of missed paychecks. A Social Security worker said his wife has picked up extra shifts at her job to compensate for his loss of pay.
A furloughed NIH staffer said he visited a food pantry last week to stock up in preparation for who knows how many weeks of going without a salary.
“My wife has been so stressed,” he said. “I’m so angry at this administration.”….
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Details on those being immediacy unlaided off….
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