[COBOL2Java]

I'm glad for the Coast Guard. They're not part of the DoD (which is unaffected by the shutdown).

If there's any group which deserves to get paid, it's them.

[COBOL2Java]

Hold on! This wasn’t what was in the email alert I received.

This is what the email said:

“The House passed a bill that will ensure furloughed federal workers get paid for the hours worked during the government shutdown. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate Thursday night and the White House has said President Trump will sign it.”

[New Jersey Realist]

This should only apply to those actually working through this period. If they stayed at home then they shouldn’t get paid.

[blueunicorn6]

What shutdown?

[wiseprince]

shouldn’t sign it. It can just as easily be passed when it’s over.

[mrsmith]

Ha! 7 Rs voted against it.
Good for them (though it was a ‘free’ vote).
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll028.xml

[DannyTN]

We need the Coast Guard on the job too. They are border security.

[Agatsu77]

When I was a contractor during a shutdown we didn’t get paid for missing work but the Damn fed unions did. Extra pay for not working. Slime balls!

[JoSixChip]

The House also passed a bill to reopen the Interior Department, National Park Service and Smithsonian Museums.

WTF? They are going to carve out border security and fund everything else. Trump will not fall for that.

[mewzilla]

Is this the bill?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/24/text

If so, looks to me like it originated in the Senate, not the House. If so, ain’t that a wee prob when it comes to a spending bill?

[Brown Deer]

NON-ESSENTIAL “workers” should NOT get paid for not working. They should be laid off, for a savings of $80 billion/per year to us taxpayers!