The longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Cable news shows display clocks announcing the all time record down to the second.
On Sunday, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin made the following comment on “Face the Nation” I can’t say that we’re close, because the president has made it clear he doesn’t care. He’s prepared to see a shutdown for months and even said years, and reaffirmed that before the cameras.
Certain offices of USDA’s Farm Service Agency across the country will be open on Jan. 17, 18 and 22 to help farmers with existing loans and tax paperwork, the department said.
In recent days, agencies have called back to work thousands of furloughed federal employees, restarted services and pursued key policies at shuttered agencies. The activity has legal experts, administration officials and veterans of past shutdowns questioning what actually constitutes a government shutdown if the administration can simply resurrect its preferred services and à la carte policy to-do list nearly a month after funding technically expired for several agencies.
House Democrats said the Interior Department's decision to call furloughed employees back to work on offshore drilling efforts during the government shutdown appears to be illegal and demanded an end to the activity.
President Donald Trump’s administration will have the option to lay off all furloughed government workers after their furlough reaches 30 days.
President Trump can save taxpayers more than $1 billion per week if he lays off the approximately 800,000 non-essential government workers who are not getting paid. That would save enough money to cover the cost of Trump’s wall in six weeks, or three pay periods.
While it was a bit of a different circumstance, Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 striking air traffic controllers on Aug. 5, 1981. No one expected the backup plan of using supervisors, 2,000 nonstriking controllers and 900 military controllers to work. But it worked well enough and there were plenty of people who lined up for a chance at a high paying job like this.
Is President Trump capable of doing such a thing? Of course he is!
The Democrats in Congress might care a bit particularly if a measly $5B might mean that these 800,000 people get their jobs back.
On Sunday, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin made the following comment on “Face the Nation” I can’t say that we’re close, because the president has made it clear he doesn’t care. He’s prepared to see a shutdown for months and even said years, and reaffirmed that before the cameras.
Certain offices of USDA’s Farm Service Agency across the country will be open on Jan. 17, 18 and 22 to help farmers with existing loans and tax paperwork, the department said.
In recent days, agencies have called back to work thousands of furloughed federal employees, restarted services and pursued key policies at shuttered agencies. The activity has legal experts, administration officials and veterans of past shutdowns questioning what actually constitutes a government shutdown if the administration can simply resurrect its preferred services and à la carte policy to-do list nearly a month after funding technically expired for several agencies.
House Democrats said the Interior Department's decision to call furloughed employees back to work on offshore drilling efforts during the government shutdown appears to be illegal and demanded an end to the activity.
President Donald Trump’s administration will have the option to lay off all furloughed government workers after their furlough reaches 30 days.
President Trump can save taxpayers more than $1 billion per week if he lays off the approximately 800,000 non-essential government workers who are not getting paid. That would save enough money to cover the cost of Trump’s wall in six weeks, or three pay periods.
While it was a bit of a different circumstance, Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 striking air traffic controllers on Aug. 5, 1981. No one expected the backup plan of using supervisors, 2,000 nonstriking controllers and 900 military controllers to work. But it worked well enough and there were plenty of people who lined up for a chance at a high paying job like this.
Is President Trump capable of doing such a thing? Of course he is!
The Democrats in Congress might care a bit particularly if a measly $5B might mean that these 800,000 people get their jobs back.
