A shutdown that would halt pay for military families and government workers comes at a particularly precarious time for many households that are already struggling financially.
With six kids under the age of 15 to support, Stephen Booth, a police officer for the Air Force in Kansas, doesn’t have room in his budget for a missed paycheck.
But like millions of other government employees across the country, Booth is bracing for his pay to stop indefinitely at the end of the month as Congress careers toward a government shutdown.
House Republicans left Thursday unable to reach a compromise within their ranks over a new budget, including funds for the Defense Department, with a handful of conservative holdouts demanding additional spending cuts. Unless Congress acts, the federal government will not be able to pay its 4 million employees after Sept. 30.
The best part is congress will keep getting paid. So, no skin off their back shutting down the government.
Everything the government can’t agree on laying its bills we should fire them all and elect an entirely new congress. It’s completely unacceptable to be doing this every few years.
It’s even more fucked then that - none of the shitheads that are doing this actually urgently need their paycheck from their job.
The crazies that are causing this are all rich enough that they’d be fine if they got paid later once the shutdown is over. They don’t know the concept of living paycheck to paycheck, they’ve always had a pool of money in reserve.
Most do not make the majority of their money from their government paycheck. Wild how they can get elected and suddenly make millions.
Yeah, it’s super scummy that people can do that. Happens to a good portion of congress people. A lot of insider trading going on too.
The need to pass the MCCARTHYS Act
Aka My Constituents Cannot Afford Rebellious Tantrum, Handle Your Shutdown Act,
Which would halt congressional pay during shutdown.
I thought you were being funny, but I did recall that there was a bill/act. So I went to look it and up and I had a facepalm moment.
https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-angie-craig-introduces-mccarthy-shutdown-act-stop-member-pay-during
For anyone else wondering about the veracity.
What I find especially sickening is one of the prior times to this. Lawmakers or whatever were saying that they needed their salary because they had bills to pay. Completely tone-deaf. I can’t find that person though, it’s hard googling it with current events. I did see a list of those that rejected a paycheck the last time this happened:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/congress-members-no-pay-shutdown/index.html
A mix of D and Rs.
To be honest, if I was making the name up, I’d have gone with “Shit” instead of “shutdown”. Just saying.
They should lose 1 paycheck for each day that the government is shutdown.