Twice Dems Voted Against Paying Federal Workers During the Shutdown

Independent Sentinel.com ^ | anuary 23, 20192 | S.Noble

[Yosemitest]

Last week and today, Democrats voted against a measure that would pay federal workers during the partial shutdown.
Republicans brought the bill to the floor.
Democrats want Americans to suffer so they blame President Trump.

Six Democrats broke with leadership and voted with Republicans last week, and ten this week.

Did you even know this happened ?
I doubt it.
The media is barely reporting it.

Rep. Crenshaw reported it last week and every Republican should have been tweeting.
Crenshaw wrote on Twitter:
“Last week, House GOP voted to pay federal employees their 1st paycheck of 2019, despite the shutdown.
Only 6 Dems voted with us.
It failed.
Dem priority is not paying workers or opening gov’t.
It is opposing Trump.”

He linked to the roll call on January 17.

The bill was brought back up Wednesday and failed 200 to 215, but now there are ten Democrats who broke with Pelosi.
The point is
Democrats want federal workers to suffer
so they can hurt President Trump.

Some Democrats are pressuring Pelosi.

“Give Trump the money,” Minnesota Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson said on local radio Tuesday.
“I’d give him the whole thing … and put strings on it so you make sure he puts the wall where it needs to be.
Why are we fighting over this ?
We’re going to build that wall anyway, at some time.”

These Democrats only care about trying to make Trump look bad.
All they have to do is fund some of the border wall, add technology and beds, and hire more border agents.
Then the government can reopen.
Just do it ! ...

[Yosemitest]

Here's another article.

Second time in 2 weeks Pelosi, House Dems vote against GOP effort
to get furloughed workers their paychecks

On Wednesday congressional Democrats again voted down a GOP-led attempt in the House to pay furloughed federal employees while the ongoing government shutdown continues.

“Democratic leaders decided to call up a bill Wednesday to fund the entire government.
But just before the final vote, Republicans made a motion to erase that bill and instead vote on a measure to ensure federal workers are paid.
The GOP motion failed 200-215,” the Washington Examiner reported.

House Democrats voted the same way during a similar vote held last Thursday.
Except according to official vote tallies, last time only six Democrats crossed the aisle to vote in favor of paying furloughed workers.
This time that number increased sharply.

“Today, the number of Democrats joining us in our second attempt to pay federal workers jumped to 11 as more of them panic over Nancy Pelosi’s failed shutdown strategy,” House Republicans announced in a statement following the failed vote.

“This is further evidence of the Democrats’ refusal to work across the aisle to provide relief to the 800,000 federal workers.
They are completely obsessed with telling this President ‘no,’ regardless of the damage it does to our country or individuals who just need to get paid.”

Just like the original vote, Wednesday’s failed vote received zero coverage from the mainstream media,
which, as an ally of the left, seeks to portray
the Democrats as noble people’s champions
and the Republicans as selfish scrooges who only care about politics.

But as noted by an increasing number of Americans, the Democrats’ behavior throughout the shutdown —
including their obstinate refusal to even negotiate with President Donald Trump
— strongly suggests that they are the ones who only care about politics.

They specifically only care about the politics of scoring points against the president:

“For weeks, Democrats have falsely attempted to pass blame to Republicans for federal workers missing their paychecks,
but now Speaker Pelosi and her caucus are nowhere to be found when it comes to actually voting to pay these same workers,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said in a statement Wednesday.

“Just days ago, Speaker Pelosi outright rejected the President’s offer to reopen the government before she even had the chance to hear it,” he added.

True.
Last weekend the president proposed a compromise that called for Democrats agreeing to approve $5.7 billion in funding for a southern U.S. border wall in exchange for him granting extended temporary protections to the Democrats’ beloved DACA and TPS recipients.

Yet in a statement published to Twitter minutes before he announced the compromise, Pelosi flat-out said the deal was a no-go:



“Democrats are all talk.
They won’t vote to secure our border.
They won’t vote to pay displaced federal workers.
They’re so committed to their open-border agenda that
they have repeatedly voted to deprive federal workers of their paychecks
just to send a message to the President,”
Scalise’s statement continues.

“The government has been shut down for 33 days yet Speaker Pelosi offers no solutions or paths forward.
The American people deserve better.”

Instead of offering solutions, Democrats have spent the past month virtue-signaling nonstop about furloughed federal workers, all while they block every attempt to pay said workers.

The hypocrisy is telling to many: ...

Continued article

[JBW1949]

Why don’t we hear this on the news shows on TV????

Ridiculous question, I know...

[del griffith]

The reason Republicans weren’t tweeting is they know it was a symbolic game. Sort of like voting to kill Obamacare.

[Nateman]

Most of those 800000 are fellow RATs! How delicious this is. Nanzi is stabbing her own people in the back. No wonder RATs are starting to peel off . Her hate is blinding what little reason remains in that increasingly senile old brain.

[JBW1949]

President Trump should announce this to the whole country...Tell the 800,000 federal workers exactly what is holding their pay back.....

[Beagle8U]

Unless it is reported on the network news...it didn’t happen.

[DoodleDawg]

Pay the workers with what? Their agencies aren’t funded. Where does the money come from?

[null and void]

Next time put a poison pill in the bill, make it so as federal employees, CONGRESS doesn’t get paid...

[null and void]

Pay the workers with what? Their agencies aren’t funded. Where does the money come from?

obama's stash?

CONGRESS is getting paid, where is that money coming from if there's no funding? Tap that funding source!

[Doche2X2]

If a tree falls in the forest and the news media do not cover it, does it still make a sound?

[DoodleDawg]

CONGRESS is getting paid, where is that money coming from if there's no funding?

Funding for Congress was passed last year. Funding for Department of Defense, too.

[SunkenCiv]

• House Republicans Have Twice Voted to Pay Government Employees During Shutdown

[Beagle8U]

Point is the dumb@$$es that elect liberals never see anything that isn’t on network news.

It would help if FOX would start airing Bret Bair’s show 6pm-7pm on FOX’s network stations.

[minnesota_bound]

Trump should have said this as well in his speech today. Point it out instead of covering it up. You can never work with democrats. Never! Just indict them.