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Why are people being allowed to work in the WH for free? (Original Post)
jmowreader
Jun 2017
OP
I don't think WH interns get paid and there's a small army of those
HeartachesNhangovers
Jun 2017
#7
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Because they are so filled with patriotism that............
Or, they are filled with something that is not called patriotism.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)2. Whom are you referring to?
Ivanka? Jared?
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)4. Those are the ones
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)6. I wouldn't say they are working "for free"
Ivanka has a taxpayer-funded (I assume) office and staff and Jared has expenses-paid trips to Iraq and wherever to do his father-in-law's bidding. I wouldn't say that they are completely "working for free". And this is just what we KNOW about. Anyway, given how "transparent" the Trump WH is, we would really have no way to know if they are being paid for their work or not.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)9. Because otherwise they'd run afoul of 5 U.S.C. 3110
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3110
The way to get around having your daughter and son-in-law work in the White House is not to pay them.
The way to get around having your daughter and son-in-law work in the White House is not to pay them.
Control-Z
(15,681 posts)3. So they can make serious money. n/t
Wounded Bear
(58,442 posts)5. It's harder to prove espionage if you don't pay them...
HeartachesNhangovers
(814 posts)7. I don't think WH interns get paid and there's a small army of those
in every administration.
former9thward
(31,806 posts)8. JFK and Herbert Hoover both rejected pay as President.
As did Robert Kennedy when he was Attorney General. Why should people be forced to take pay?