Posted on 01/18/2019 5:21:00 AM PST by blueplum
Full title: State Dept. employees ordered back to work as Trump nixes Pelosi trip and Davos delegation, citing shutdown
The State Department ordered its employees to return to work next week, saying it has found money to cover a half-month in salary, as the Trump administration continued to grapple with a federal shutdown that shows no sign of ending. {snip}
“There is no credible justification” for some of these decisions, said Charles Tiefer, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and expert on government contracting. He said decisions to restart agency operations that had been closed to help farmers and energy-sector workers, for example, ran contrary to past government practice. “These are instances of the government working with some part of the private sector that is favored.”
White House officials, though, have argued that they are simply trying to minimize the impact of the shutdown on as many people as possible. They have reinstated Internal Revenue Service employees to help process millions of tax returns next month, and they have found a way to pay food-stamp benefits in the coming days as well.
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They found some of Hillary’s 6 Billion?
If the shutdown can be made to discomfort no one at all, what’s the incentive to ending it?
now go to work and then go on the *ahem* sites.
BOL....good one.
The altruistic Clinton Foundation is always looking to “do-good” (sniffle).
Maybe they could find a few $$billion in their offshore accounts to put some State Dept employees back to work?
Afraid of RIF are we?
State Department playing games, but then when are they not playing games?
They didn't want to risk that having people furloughed for more than 30 days might give Trump authority to order permanent Reductions In Force. Even a two week return to work restarts the clock.
“... as the Trump administration continued to grapple with a federal shutdown ...”
One of N examples (where N is approaching infinity) where the WaPo is out of the closet and bending over for the dimbulcrats on the 50 yard line of the Rose Bowl on New Years day.
Journalism - only education majors are dumber.
Another issue...the media is hyping sob stories about TSA employees calling in sick and taking jobs for income now. They'll be reimbursed when it's over. How bad is a system that rewards those who don't go to work?
It's on President Trump. He should have not signed any budgets from evil Paul Ryan. They increased the debt and they didn't include the wall. Instead of doing the wall by Executive Order, he threatened it. And now, Pelosi and her Coven are causing all kinds of chaos so it would look vindictive if he did the Executive Order.
You know what? We Deplorables gave it our best shot. Time and money and participation to get President Trump elected. If this falls apart, Romney/Kasick/Jeb and their ilk can forget about it. I'll never vote for one of them.
It can happen. This is anecdotal: I live in a district for State Rep just out side of Cleveland that would have even Representative Gerry rolling in his grave. It's an artistic creation that assures that deep-pocket construction contractors will have a friend in Columbus. The designated winner had glossy mailed ads every day that told us who to vote for and expensive surveys so he'd champion the correct things. A member of the Club for Growth even came to my house to tell me who to vote for. He was obviously even at that lowly level not his own man. The designated loser the dems chose to run against him ran a clean campaign, basic, fundamental ads with a little humor. Never hid that he's a member of Black Lives Matter, but didn't campaign on crazy issues. Nobody can figure out how Phil Robinson won. It was mad as *ell voters such as myself who were sick of Kasick and what that branch of the Republican Party has done to OH.
it will be interesting to see, in the next week, how many depts. come up with ‘found’ money they had squirreled away while crying poor for budget purposes. Or if this ‘found money’ had any relation to the McConnell courts Pompeo rumors.
How bad is a system that rewards those who don’t go to work?
I’m not here to defend the furloughed workers, who will get paid eventually, but they didn’t orchestrate the shutdown. To the extent some of them are willing to work for free for now, I commend it. For those who won’t do that, I can’t recommend in favor of slave labor, either.
So if they do not show up to do their job do they get fired? RIF (reduction in force) could be used to get rid of some bloat.
When this is over, those who can’t handle up to two months without pay should get some serious economics counseling. They’ve got the decent wages and benefits and most often security of a federal job. That they don’t have savings to last two months, or at least an arrangement with a bank for a temporary loan if this happens, is incomprehensible. This has happened enough in the past so they should’ve prepared for it.
That’s true.
You are right on target.
I have extended family in the State Dept and he was always talking about three things.
How dumb Ambassadors were.
How he had lifetime employment.
How the private sector was so over paid.
He retired with a 100k pension plus Social Security.
He had free housing during his travels overseas.
Sounds like your typical parasitic government “worker”.
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