The problem is that government workers should never have their pay and work held hostage by politicians in Washington squabbling over political initiatives. The continuing spending resolution methods that our D.C. federal politicians have sunk to which cause this type of situation needs to be stopped. The government should be required to adopt and pass a budget each year. If the budget does not pass for some reason then government operations should continue but on "austerity" at the existing budget levels with all departments open. (meaning no increase in spending / pay raises).
And there it is. This tells us everything we need to know about who is negotiating in good faith, and who is just trying to score political points regardless of the consequences. Couple kids die at the border, whatever, orange man bad. People go without pay. Tough luck, we have a narrative to push. A plane gets jacked, few hundred people die, hey it's all for the greater good to bring Trump down.
Agreed, which is why TSA needs to shut down air travel to send Washington a message to stop doing this BS. I'm glad we agree Trump's trying to push the narrative of a non existent threat at our borders to score some political points with a bunch of racists.
Why Don’t Unpaid Federal Workers Walk Off the Job? The law prohibits them from striking TheNational Labor Relations Actextends a right to strike to American workers — but it specifically does not give that right to government workers. A law passed during President Jimmy Carter’s administration bars federal workers from striking. When air traffic controllers walked off the job in 1981, demanding better pay and working conditions, President Ronald Reagan ordered them to return to work. When they did not, he fired them. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/us/politics/shutdown-federal-workers-strike.html
Totally true. There was a bill. It had bipartisan support. Trump killed it. Republican Senate leadership fell into line behind him. Trump killed it to score political points with his base. He even said that he will take the blame for the shutdown. He doesn’t care about the employees.
Yes. One was a real funding bill which allowed for discussion about the wall later. The other is a stop gap to prevent trump from bleeding in the polls while he can still continue to say the democrats aren’t negotiating on the wall.