01-20-2018, 12:31 PM
(01-20-2018, 12:09 PM)Maggot Wrote: Who will be going without a paycheck? Hopefully every Representative and Senator. I couldn't care less about that either.
Politicians are exempt. Shame.
Federal employees deemed “essential” (or “excepted”) will still have to report to work, while the rest will be furloughed. No one gets paid until Congress passes a funding bill, and whether furloughed employees get paid is up to the government.