Back pay for government-shut-down workers might not happen, Trump stated

[Luckyone]

It's called, the shoe is on the other foot. The democrats have played these games for decades.

Total biased BS

 

[CrazyTrader55]

Total biased BS

Cry a little harder

 

[Luckyone]

Cry a little harder

THAT IS TOTAL BIASED BS

 

[CrazyTrader55]

THAT IS TOTAL BIASED BS

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What government agency do you work for?

 

[Luckyone]

What government agency do you work for?

PBA (Public Benefit Association)

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Trump

Well, it's not Trump. As I said before, it's ALL of them. If you're going to take the tribalist partisan route then there is no point in further discussion with you.

You cannot have someone pay for your mistake.

According to who?? People pay for others mistakes every single day. What the hell does that have to do with anything? If that's the whole basis of your argument then don't even bother.

The government is not a company that will go out of business.

$ 37 trillion in debt may suggest otherwise down the road. Governments, in fact, do collapse. Hyperinflation is real. Ask Zimbabwe.

That means that the workers should not have to pay if the government is shut down because of the inability of Congress to come to an agreement

Says who? You? Well, I guess that settles it then.

I could have received a more productive answer from a second grader.

 

[Clipper]

Exactly. Name me any other industry that lays people off temporarily, gives them vacation, and then pays them back in full. There are none.

Than maybe Dopetard shouldn't have signed a bill into LAW guaranteeing back pay.

 

[Concerned American]

Total biased BS

How do you like it? What goes around, comes around.

 

[merrill]

White House memo says furloughed workers might not get back pay

Trump is using the threat of federal workforce cuts to force them to back the GOP’s clean continuing resolution. Furloughed federal workers may not be eligible for back pay after the government shutdown, according to a memo circulated by the White House, another escalation in its pressure campaign against Senate Democrats.

When asked about it at the Oval Office Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that while the administration has a keen interest in taking “care of our people, “there are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

That is a scary statement because it suggests that if you (as a citizen) support the Democrats wanting to ensure that Medicaid and Medicare don't get cut (which is why the Democrats did not try to prevent a government shutdown), that you will not get paid what you are due (as a government worker).

Here is what our country has always represented for its citizens: ‘The livelihoods of the patriotic Americans serving their country in the federal government are not bargaining chips in a political game,’ the American Federation of Government Employees national president said.

The irony of this Trump statement is that he totally supported the opposite of this in 2019, when the government shut down that year:

Trump signs law guaranteeing back pay for federal workers​

President Trump on Wednesday signed a bill guaranteeing back-pay to federal workers furloughed during the partial government shutdown that began in December.

The White House announced that Trump has signed the bill in a brief statement Wednesday afternoon as the partial shutdown dragged into its 26th day.

He has done a total about-face from 2019, because in 2019, it helped him politically, but in 2025 it is hurting him. This shows that Trump is not a man that cares about you (as a citizen) but only cares about his own political wins. You are just a pawn in his game.

You like/enjoy being a pawn/puppet?

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This is not a choice the president can decide = =======

 

[Independent thinker]

White House memo says furloughed workers might not get back pay

Trump is using the threat of federal workforce cuts to force them to back the GOP’s clean continuing resolution. Furloughed federal workers may not be eligible for back pay after the government shutdown, according to a memo circulated by the White House, another escalation in its pressure campaign against Senate Democrats.

When asked about it at the Oval Office Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that while the administration has a keen interest in taking “care of our people, “there are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

That is a scary statement because it suggests that if you (as a citizen) support the Democrats wanting to ensure that Medicaid and Medicare don't get cut (which is why the Democrats did not try to prevent a government shutdown), that you will not get paid what you are due (as a government worker).

Here is what our country has always represented for its citizens: ‘The livelihoods of the patriotic Americans serving their country in the federal government are not bargaining chips in a political game,’ the American Federation of Government Employees national president said.

The irony of this Trump statement is that he totally supported the opposite of this in 2019, when the government shut down that year:

Trump signs law guaranteeing back pay for federal workers​

President Trump on Wednesday signed a bill guaranteeing back-pay to federal workers furloughed during the partial government shutdown that began in December.

The White House announced that Trump has signed the bill in a brief statement Wednesday afternoon as the partial shutdown dragged into its 26th day.

He has done a total about-face from 2019, because in 2019, it helped him politically, but in 2025 it is hurting him. This shows that Trump is not a man that cares about you (as a citizen) but only cares about his own political wins. You are just a pawn in his game.

You like/enjoy being a pawn/puppet?

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There should be zero back pay for anyone who isn't working.

 

[WorldWatcher]

There should be zero back pay for anyone who isn't working.

During a federal government shutdown. There shouldn't be people working.

We are not in a shut down.

WW

 

[Luckyone]

There should be zero back pay for anyone who isn't working.

Why aren't they working? Because the politicians shut it down. The politicians are the ones to blame, and as such, they need to be paid. Politics should not be a part of the job that a government is supposed to do.

If you get hit by a car and cannot work, isn't the person responsible for causing you to lose your income not responsible for you getting your pay?

Duh, you truly are an independent thinker. You belong in an asylum where your kind of thinking gets treated!

 

[Luckyone]

This is not a choice the president can decide = =======

But he did make the decision

 

[Independent thinker]

Why aren't they working? Because the politicians shut it down. The politicians are the ones to blame, and as such, they need to be paid. Politics should not be a part of the job that a government is supposed to do.

If you get hit by a car and cannot work, isn't the person responsible for causing you to lose your income not responsible for you getting your pay?

Duh, you truly are an independent thinker. You belong in an asylum where your kind of thinking gets treated!

It's not fair to back pay government workers who AREN'T working for sitting on their butts while other government workers who actually are working get back pay.

 

[Luckyone]

It's not fair to back pay government workers who AREN'T working for watching television while other government workers who actually are working get back pay.

It wasn't their decision not to work!!!!!!

 

[Independent thinker]

It wasn't their decision not to work!!!!!!

It's not fair to pay people for not working while others have to work to get paid. Screw 'em.

 

[WorldWatcher]

It's not fair to back pay government workers who AREN'T working for sitting on their butts while other government workers who actually are working get back pay.

It's not fair to pay people for not working while others have to work to get paid. Screw 'em.

If the government is shut down those other workers shouldn’t be working either.

Something like 70% of the civilian federal workforce is in the job.

Send them home.

WW

 

[Luckyone]

It's not fair to pay people for not working while others have to work to get paid. Screw 'em.

screw you!

 

[Concerned American]

There should be zero back pay for anyone who isn't working.

I agree. Backpay is just a political dodge to avoid the consequences of political incompetence. I believe every democrat senator who voted against the CR to do the responsible thing, should be voted out.

 

[Independent thinker]

screw you!

Well, with Trump as my president, it is you guys on the left getting screwed and I'm absolutely thrilled about it.