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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Be careful" how, OP? This is completely out of our control. We're already living without paychecks, nobody i know is putting it all on a credit card with no worries. [/quote]

+1, and this is not "new" news. We already went through this in week 1 when Vought leaked that memo. They're down to re-runs at this point. [/quote]

It's not a re-run if they're reporting on the administration continuing to say they won't pay federal workers this week.    The New York Times also has it in their story about the shutdown today. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/trump-administration-pain-shutdown.html[/quote]

Republicans have shown time and time again that they want to inflict trauma on Federal workers. Russell Vought has said that clearly and in public.  Believe them.[/quote]

It's not that I don't believe them, it's that I don't think they have more of a leg than they did weeks ago. Nothing has changed about their obligation to pay or the practical reasons to pay. And nothing about it changes my behavior, since I'm already on a tight budget like everybody furloughed - so what is the "news" here?

BTW, they didn't "continue to say they won't pay federal workers" - they left the pay assurances out of furlough notices and, when asked, said they want backpay to be part of negotiations. I assume they want Dems to give up on the ACA issue but be able to say they "got something" by assuring backpay. No idea whether Dems will take the bait, but that's all it is.[/quote]

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