⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Mike Johnson floating not giving furloughed federal workers backpay
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Discussion
Does that include himself?
It doesn't hurt federal workers to feel the burn every now and then.
Congress is elected to do one thing which is to pass a budget and an appropriations bill. Since all government agencies, programs, and functions from the Department of Defense to the National Park Service require funding to operate, the power to appropriate is effectively the power to allow or forbid the entire federal government from functioning. In my opinion the only way to fix this is for Congress to not get paid until the bills are passed. The Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 (GEFTA) mandates back pay for all Federal employees. It was passed in 2019 after the last shutdown.