Trump Threatens to Shutdown Government if No $ for his Border Wall

[Anonymous]

After all Trump's bloviating that Mexico would pay for the wall it would be ironic if the GOP's lack of interest in paying for the wall resulted in the longest shutdown in recent memory.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares one way or the other. Everyone is focused on the holidays. Hey the Feds will even get some extra vacay with backpay!

Want to give us your name and phone number so you can issue that HR policy guaranteeing back pay? Because many of the families I know who are Feds are really stressed because it's the holiday season with extra bills and they're facing the prospect of no paycheck for an undetermined amount of time. No other civilized country runs their budgetary process with such uncertainty.

Provide a link to the most recent time that backpay was not given.

Take it up with your representatives. Government shutdowns, especially this new model of a “partial” shutdown, affects such a small group of people that there is not really any pressure on lawmakers to avoid it. Now stopping entitlement checks - THAT would get people’s attention. But they won’t do that, or touch the military, which is why most people don’t care.

I think a shutdown is absurd, especially over a border wall, but until it affects more people, they will keep pulling stunts like this.

In any company (or country), 400,000 employees is not a small group of people.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676689450/heres-what-would-happen-if-the-government-shuts-down-this-week

+1 400,000 is a huge number of people. When they don't get their paycheck, it affects the economy.

They’ll still get paid. They always do (says so in your own link.) And they’ll pay their expenses then. Calm down.

[Anonymous]

This just in...

Government shut down averted due to the generosity of Trump supporters:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/772342.page

[Anonymous]

This just in...

Government shut down averted due to the generosity of Trump supporters:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/772342.page

[Anonymous]

I keep hearing Republicans on cable news saying nbd because it would be a partial shutdown and the military and entitlement programs are funded so I looked up the departments that have not been funded. There are relatively few but they include DOJ. Am I wrong to wonder if a partial shutdown might slow down the Mueller probe and this might be an appealing outcome?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares one way or the other. Everyone is focused on the holidays. Hey the Feds will even get some extra vacay with backpay!

Want to give us your name and phone number so you can issue that HR policy guaranteeing back pay? Because many of the families I know who are Feds are really stressed because it's the holiday season with extra bills and they're facing the prospect of no paycheck for an undetermined amount of time. No other civilized country runs their budgetary process with such uncertainty.

Provide a link to the most recent time that backpay was not given.

Take it up with your representatives. Government shutdowns, especially this new model of a “partial” shutdown, affects such a small group of people that there is not really any pressure on lawmakers to avoid it. Now stopping entitlement checks - THAT would get people’s attention. But they won’t do that, or touch the military, which is why most people don’t care.

I think a shutdown is absurd, especially over a border wall, but until it affects more people, they will keep pulling stunts like this.

In any company (or country), 400,000 employees is not a small group of people.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676689450/heres-what-would-happen-if-the-government-shuts-down-this-week

+1 400,000 is a huge number of people. When they don't get their paycheck, it affects the economy.

They’ll still get paid. They always do (says so in your own link.) And they’ll pay their expenses then. Calm down.

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There are mortgage payments, student loan payments, car payments etc. Many feds live in high col locations and don’t have a huge cushion. It is also very demoralizing for a workforce that is typically very mission focused and public service oriented to be shut out of their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares one way or the other. Everyone is focused on the holidays. Hey the Feds will even get some extra vacay with backpay!

Want to give us your name and phone number so you can issue that HR policy guaranteeing back pay? Because many of the families I know who are Feds are really stressed because it's the holiday season with extra bills and they're facing the prospect of no paycheck for an undetermined amount of time. No other civilized country runs their budgetary process with such uncertainty.

Provide a link to the most recent time that backpay was not given.

Take it up with your representatives. Government shutdowns, especially this new model of a “partial” shutdown, affects such a small group of people that there is not really any pressure on lawmakers to avoid it. Now stopping entitlement checks - THAT would get people’s attention. But they won’t do that, or touch the military, which is why most people don’t care.

I think a shutdown is absurd, especially over a border wall, but until it affects more people, they will keep pulling stunts like this.

In any company (or country), 400,000 employees is not a small group of people.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676689450/heres-what-would-happen-if-the-government-shuts-down-this-week

+1 400,000 is a huge number of people. When they don't get their paycheck, it affects the economy.

They’ll still get paid. They always do (says so in your own link.) And they’ll pay their expenses then. Calm down.

.
There are mortgage payments, student loan payments, car payments etc. Many feds live in high col locations and don’t have a huge cushion. It is also very demoralizing for a workforce that is typically very mission focused and public service oriented to be shut out of their jobs.

+1. A lot of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Christmas isn’t the time of the year to screw them out of the paycheck they’ve been expecting.

[Anonymous]

Update from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676689450/heres-what-would-happen-if-the-government-shuts-down-this-week?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2047

Oh, and Mexico was supposed to pay for the wall, Trumpers.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Update from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676689450/heres-what-would-happen-if-the-government-shuts-down-this-week?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2047

Oh, and Mexico was supposed to pay for the wall, Trumpers.

Looks like 400,000 federal employees are paying for Trump’s wall in lieu of a final 2018 paycheck this year. It’s definitely not the Mexicans.

[Anonymous]

I am so so angry. Looks like my dh and I will have to @#$& stay here and work for free to pay for the wall if the Republicans, who control all branches of government, can't get their act together. Merry Christmas indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing Republicans on cable news saying nbd because it would be a partial shutdown and the military and entitlement programs are funded so I looked up the departments that have not been funded. There are relatively few but they include DOJ. Am I wrong to wonder if a partial shutdown might slow down the Mueller probe and this might be an appealing outcome?

Mueller has been paid for through next year, I believe.

Plus Mueller has seized more than double the cost of the OSC's investigation so far.

[Anonymous]

Trump is golfing while the secret service have to protect him without being paid. MAGA

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-golf-shutdown_us_5c181df5e4b08db99056bd30

[Anonymous]

Trump is the worst and laziest President ever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing Republicans on cable news saying nbd because it would be a partial shutdown and the military and entitlement programs are funded so I looked up the departments that have not been funded. There are relatively few but they include DOJ. Am I wrong to wonder if a partial shutdown might slow down the Mueller probe and this might be an appealing outcome?

Mueller has been paid for through next year, I believe.

Plus Mueller has seized more than double the cost of the OSC's investigation so far.

I had the same thought last night and was really wondering about this...