With the GOP in charge of everything, will anyone really notice a change in anything “getting done” in a shutdown?
Would seem to be just another useless day in Drumpfmurika…
The problems would become increasingly more difficult the longer the shutdown goes on. The real impacts start to mount up after a week or two.
You just provided a list of things the GOP puts in the “pro” column…not to mention “severe damage to the ACA’s continued implementation and management” and other safety net programs.
Yeah but the really important stuff will get done. Even as we speak, AF1 is warming up to fly Bozo down to his golfing vacation which when you get right down to it is his only concern.
Didn’t the economy take something like a $20 billion hit the last time this happened? Nice work from the “fiscally conservative” and “pro-jobs” party.
He said his agency hasn’t yet determined whether the IRS employees
developing new tax forms to conform with the law are deemed essential,
meaning they would still report to work during a shutdown.
I know he’s just lying or ignorant, and the determination has already been made that they’re not, but think of what this would imply for the department if that were true. People going home friday afternoon not knowing whether they’re supposed to come in to work monday. And oops, the people who would be making the phone calls and sending the messages telling them whether to come in, they don’t know whether to report for work either.
Curious if the “Federal Employee blanket” covers the pilots of Air Force One (& two), and the secret service for that matter?? That may have been more instrumental in Orange Hitler staying put than the transparent grandstanding attempt reported earlier…just sayin.
Members of Congress will continue to receive paychecks because it’s written into law.
What about Social Security checks? Will Grandma & Grandpa get their money? Considering it’s most elderly people’s primary or only source of income, this could be a major problem.
He said his agency hasn’t yet determined whether the IRS employees developing new tax forms to conform with the law are
Ah, if they haven’t been deemed essential, show is they still show up?
Leave it to Mulvaney to get it absolutely wrong.
Why do these reports not address the fact that salaried federal workers who get “furloughed” STILL HAVE MORTGAGES AND OTHER BILLS TO PAY??? Why do these reports not address the fact that these same salaried federal workers have been given NO GUARANTEE OF BACK PAY for the time they are “furloughed”??? It’s not as though they get to enjoy whatever time they’ll have when they’re not reporting for work.
Checks continue to be processed: (scroll to the charts at the end; warning: lots of gov. jargon!)
https://www.ssa.gov/agency/shutdown/materials/2015-contingency-plan.pdf
That is a pity.
IN 2013 in the last shutdown some critters made noise about returning their paychecks. I’m not sure any followed through.
Thousands of intelligence agency employees would be furloughed even as tension over North Korea’s nuclear program remains high.
Thought Fox Shrews was Trumps Intel Agency .