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.

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    22 hours ago

    It’s not even that they genuinely hate these people. The media has told them who to hate and they blindly believe it.

    For a party that constantly called the Democrats sheep in the mid 2010s they sure are wearing a lot of fleece.