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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 07:25 PM Nov 2018

As Trump renews border wall demands, government shutdown looms

Source: Reuters

POLITICS NOVEMBER 27, 2018 / 4:39 PM / UPDATED 20 MINUTES AGO

As Trump renews border wall demands, government shutdown looms

Richard Cowan
4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s renewed demand for U.S. taxpayer funding of his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall was threatening again on Tuesday to bring on a budget standoff and a partial government shutdown, leaving Congress just 11 days to act.

With time running short, Trump and Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives huddled at the White House.

Representative Steve Scalise, who attended the meeting, later told Fox News: “It’s all about border security and $5 billion is the number” for the wall.

That figure is significantly higher than even Republicans in the Senate have sought and Democrats have rejected.

An aide to House Speaker Paul Ryan would not comment on the $5 billion figure, only saying there was discussion of the need for “responsible funding for border security.”

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-wall/as-trump-renews-border-wall-demands-government-shutdown-looms-idUSKCN1NW2FX
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As Trump renews border wall demands, government shutdown looms (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2018 OP
Kinda goes back to who cares? Govt workers will still get paid, beachbum bob Nov 2018 #1
Employees are NOT paid during the shutdown. NutmegYankee Nov 2018 #3
No shit... regnaD kciN Nov 2018 #5
In every shutdown, fed employees have been paid. They have union beachbum bob Nov 2018 #7
The unions do not have bargaining power over pay. NutmegYankee Nov 2018 #8
Gov Workers Do NOT get paid. Cha Nov 2018 #6
Then tell Trump to demand Mexico cough up the money!!!!! ProudMNDemocrat Nov 2018 #2
Trump will shut it down if he doesn't get the money for a monument to himself world wide wally Nov 2018 #4
If He Creates A Shutdown He Should Lose Secret Service Protection JimGinPA Nov 2018 #9
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
1. Kinda goes back to who cares? Govt workers will still get paid,
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 07:32 PM
Nov 2018

Services cut back...checks still go out, Ss still paid. It's all pr and waste of funds to pay employees to stay home.

Shut the govt down will not help trump, proves he can't run it

regnaD kciN

(26,035 posts)
5. No shit...
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 08:10 PM
Nov 2018

My wife works at Treasury. In a shutdown, you get furloughed…unless your position is designated as “essential,” in which you have to come in and work anyway. Theoretically, once the shutdown is over, you should get paid for all the days you worked, but nowhere is that guaranteed, and Congress and the administration could just thank you for your unpaid labor during the shutdown and hang you out to dry.

NutmegYankee

(16,178 posts)
8. The unions do not have bargaining power over pay.
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 09:49 PM
Nov 2018

That is set into federal law as part of the GS system or authorized alternative pay systems.

I believe there were a few hundred mostly technical workers at the FAA whose funding got missed on an extension bill about 6 years ago and were furloughed for weeks. Congress never authorized them back pay.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,485 posts)
2. Then tell Trump to demand Mexico cough up the money!!!!!
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 07:36 PM
Nov 2018

That is what he PROMISED voters in 2016 who would pay for the wall we do not need.

Congressional Republicans who push for the Tax Payer funded wall will see serious back lash in 2020. They can bet the farm on that.

Partial Government shutdown? Is that like a Semi-Tractor trailer?

JimGinPA

(14,811 posts)
9. If He Creates A Shutdown He Should Lose Secret Service Protection
Tue Nov 27, 2018, 09:59 PM
Nov 2018

No Air Force One and no electricity at the White House. Let him pay for his own golf trips for while.






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