Affordable Care Act
It was passed in the middle of the night, on a straight party line and not a single member of Congress had read it.
The Trump administration has argued that federal employees are not automatically entitled to back pay, maintaining that Congress must approve any such payments in legislation ending the shutdown.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday addressed the possibility of some federal workers not getting paid when the shutdown ends.
"As we’ve said before, the livelihoods of the patriotic Americans serving their country in the federal government are not bargaining chips in a political game," Everett Kelley said. "It’s long past time for these attacks on federal employees to stop and for Congress to come together, resolve their differences, and end this shutdown."
The president of the American Federation of Government Employees condemned the possibility that some workers could be denied back pay.
"As we’ve said before, the livelihoods of the patriotic Americans serving their country in the federal government are not bargaining chips in a political game," Everett Kelley said. "It’s long past time for these attacks on federal employees to stop and for Congress to come together, resolve their differences, and end this shutdown."
The government shutdown has stretched into its second week with no end in sight. Numerous votes on competing bills to reopen the government have failed.
Democrats are conditioning their support for short-term funding on extending health subsidies that lower the cost of Affordable Care Act plans. Republicans have said negotiations over health care subsidies should take place only after the government is reopened.
Because we had to pass it to know what was in it, according to Nancy Pelosi.
Ignore my previous reply. I must have accidentally pasted stuff into it.
What I meant to say was “Because we had to pass it to know what was in it, according to Nancy Pelosi.”
Besides, it’s just a tax.
“..Affordable Care Act
It was passed in the middle of the night, on a straight party line and not a single member of Congress had read it....”
Yep. And, IIRC, it was Christmas EVe night.....whadda “present” to the USA from those muslim-loving basstids..... And now, none of em have the guts to correct the wrong. They just wanna put a red ribbon and a little perfume on this still-stinking RAT turd of a law. They’re not fooling anyone.
And on Christmas Eve!