Posted on 12/31/2018 1:27:02 AM PST by caww
Concerned about U.S. Coast Guard forces losing a paycheck in the partial government shutdown, President Trump personally urged his team to find a solution that would allow the administration to make this week’s $75 million payroll, according to officials.
Trump stepped in on Wednesday, calling on top lawyers and staffers to determine if the Coast Guard could make payroll despite being included in the shutdown that has impacted about 25 percent of the government, including the Department of Homeland Security, which houses the Coast Guard. Officials said that Trump was keen to find a “way we can fix this” as news media stories about the Coast Guardsmen's plight started to pile up.
At his urging, the Office of Management and Budget, DHS and the Coast Guard determined that the rules governing pay to Coast Guard forces requires it be made through the end of the year. To make it, the lawyers said that unused funding could be tapped for pay.
The administration also sped up check writing in other cases and was able to deliver this week a payroll check to furloughed federal employees for time worked up to the shutdown, which began Dec. 22.
In a email to Coast Guard forces, Vice Commandant Adm. Charles Ray said, “This is outstanding news for our military workforce.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The CG should fall under the Navy or at least DoD. Not some fake Bush made up agency like DHS.
While constitutional, it is a high crime to the luciferian globalists. Peach footeefibe!
Same with the fence.
Traditionally the Coast Guard fell under Treasury. They were seconded to the Navy in time of war. I worked with a retired Coast Guard Officer, and New London graduate. He said he spent half his career assigned to the Navy as a navigator. Even before the recent incidents, the Navy must have known they needed navigators.
Interesting. Thanks.
Why Treasury? Counterfeiting?
The Coast Guard was formed by merging the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service in 1915. The Revenue Cutter Service was founded in 1790 as part of the Treasury Department.
Think “Revenue Cutter”. The original mission was to prevent smuggling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Revenue_Cutter_Service
That pays the Coast Guard. What about Border Patrol and ICE, not to mention the Secret Service?
Every exception the President make to get one organization paid is only going to anger another. They can blame the Democrats for the shutdown but who do they blame for the exceptions?
That was nice of him. It should not be possible, in a Republic of laws, for one person to manipulate things individually in this manner.
“Peach footeefibe”
I hear her a bit differently: “Impede FotiFi!”
I agree - give the Coasties to the Navy. Neither its former home in the Dept of the Treasury nor its current home in DHS is a fit.
Perhaps it’s one of the few areas he could alleviate the inconvenience to some of our folks legally - should a good thing not be done for some because it can’t be done for everyone?
I like your imitation of imbecile Maxine Waters.
Since they are part of DHS then I assume they fall under the President's Executive Order cancelling salary increases for federal workers, except military?
Coast Guard was part of Department of Transportation prior to Homeland Security.
And Treasury before that.
It used to be the IRS. (Actually Treasury Department to collect taxes before there was even an IRS.)
Transportation 1967-2003, when it was combined back into an agency with Customs Enforcement, which was the original purpose of the Coast Guard anyway. So the Homeland Security move got it closer to its original purpose.
Which doesn't mean that DHS shouldn't be abolished, along with all the un-Constitutional legislation that accompanied it.
Why isn’t the Coast Guard covered under the military? This sounds like Fake News.
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