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- news@lemmy.world
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- news@lemmy.world
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.
Wait, I thought he was already threatening to permanently lay these workers off already? Besides the fact that it’s illegal and besides the fact that Trump doesn’t have anymore leverage in this negotiation because the governments already shutdown and he was already firing people for no reason before that even happened, how is this any kind of a new threat?