Furloughed federal workers aren’t guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown, according to a draft White House memo described to Axios by three sources.
Why it matters: If the White House acts on that legal analysis, it would dramatically escalate President Trump’s pressure on Senate Democrats to end the week-old shutdown by denying back pay to as many as 750,000 federal workers after the shutdown.
They also said they were going to lay off a bunch of people. I’m beginning to suspect this White House might have a tendency to make shit up.
This has Russel Vought written all over it.
They probably think they can get federal employees to quit as well as make Democrats look bad.
The Democratic Party better get their messaging straight on this. People need to know this is all the Republicans fault.