Via Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden
The nation’s largest union of federal workers has called on Congress to pass a ‘clean’ short-term funding bill to immediately end the government shutdown which is now in its fourth week.
Representing over 800,000 federal and Washington government workers, the American Federation of Government Employees argued that the shutdown was an “avoidable crisis” that harms American families and workers nationwide.
“Both political parties have made their point, and still there is no clear end in sight,” said AFGE President Everett Kelly. “It’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today. No half measures, and no gamesmanship.”
Notably, Republicans have repeatedly pushed for exactly this – a ‘clean’ continuing resolution that keeps the government open. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has urged Senate Democrats to support it with no success, while many other House Republicans support the clean CR that the House already passed which would keep funding at current levels.
Senate Democrats have repeatedly voted down these ‘clean’ CRs.
“When the folks who serve this country are standing in line for food banks after missing a second paycheck because of this shutdown, they aren’t looking for partisan spin,” Kelly said on Monday. “They’re looking for the wages they earned. The fact that they’re being cheated out of it is a national disgrace.“
While federal workers are guaranteed back pay once the government reopens, the Senate last week rejected a GOP-led effort to pay active-duty members of the military and certain federal workers during the shutdown – with Democrats insisting that they would back a proposal to pay all federal workers and prevent the Trump administration from firing anyone during the shutdown.
“It’s time for our leaders to start focusing on how to solve problems for the American people, rather than on who is going to get the blame for a shutdown that Americans dislike,” said Kelly.
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I will say again and again the first people in goverment that should loose their pay in a government sutdown is the congress and senate. No one else. If they can’t do there job and work together to resolve a problem they shouldn’t get paid. That is pay, housing allowance, medical benefits, and travel allowance. The families also recieve noting. It just ran across my mind, how about fining them a daily amount on top of all of that. Yearly salary divided by 365, and that is what there fin is per day.
Remove all of the U.S. Congress pay for the last month and how ever longe the keep the government shut down. That is base pay, travel expenses, health care for them and their families, and retirement.
I will say again and again the first people in goverment that should loose their pay in a government sutdown is the congress and senate. No one else. If they can’t do there job and work together to resolve a problem they shouldn’t get paid. That is pay, housing allowance, medical benefits, and travel allowance. The families also recieve noting. It just ran across my mind, how about fining them a daily amount on top of all of that. Yearly salary divided by 365, and that is what there fin is per day.
Remove all of the U.S. Congress pay for the last month and how ever longe the keep the government shut down. That is base pay, travel expenses, health care for them and their families, and retirement.
WELL DONE BRILLIANT FINALLY REALIZING THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR AGENDA TO HOLD THE COUNTRY HOSTAGE OUT OF DETERMINATION TO WIELD THEIR POWER FOR POWER SAKE, NEVER FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR CITIZENS!!!!
BRILLIANT!! WHEN IS EVERTYONE GOING TO UNDERSTAND THE DEMOCRATS COULD CARE LESS ABOUT OUR COUNTRY and ITS CITIZENS, THEY WILL HOLD OUR COUNTRY?CITIZENS HOSTAHESIMPLY YO HOLD ON TO POWER FOR POWER IS THE ONLY THING THEY CARE ABOUT and IF THE CITIZENS SUFFER BECAUSE OF IT, THEY DO NOT CARE!
I feel that the Democrats have to do this to keep the illegal vote. If the law is passed, including cutting off benefits to illegals, both medical and other support and requires citizenship identification for voting the Democrats are history.