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Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown
NBC News / Comcast ^ | September 24, 2023 | By Shannon Pettypiece

Posted on 09/24/2023 7:10:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

With six kids under the age of 15 to support, Stephen Booth, a police officer for the Air Force in Kansas, doesn’t have room in his budget for a missed paycheck.

But like millions of other government employees across the country, Booth is bracing for his pay to stop indefinitely at the end of the month as Congress careers toward a government shutdown.

House Republicans left Thursday unable to reach a compromise within their ranks over a new budget, including funds for the Defense Department, with a handful of conservative holdouts demanding additional spending cuts. Unless Congress acts, the federal government will not be able to pay its 4 million employees after Sept. 30.

The shutdown comes at a particularly precarious time for many households already struggling with persistent inflation that has driven up the cost of rent, child care, groceries, transportation and utilities. At the same time, a string of Covid-era benefits have been expiring, such as the child tax credit, rental assistance and the pause on student loan payments, which are now set to resume in October. To cope, households have been spending down their savings and increasing their credit card debts over the past year.

“It’s really rice and beans time,” said Amad Ali, a claims specialist with the Social Security Administration in New Albany, Indiana, and president of his local AFGE union. “Most of us are dedicated civil servants and we keep on doing it, we keep on pushing forward, but it’s tough.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenflation; bidenomics; democrats; fjb; inflation; letsgobrandon; msdnc; mslsd; msnbc; msnbo; pmsnbc; shannonpettypiece; shutdown
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1 posted on 09/24/2023 7:10:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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2 posted on 09/24/2023 7:12:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Amad Ali, who did he vote for?


3 posted on 09/24/2023 7:13:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Yes, cops and SSA workers hardest hit.


4 posted on 09/24/2023 7:13:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh no! Now what? ~hahahahahahaha


5 posted on 09/24/2023 7:14:02 AM PDT by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC didn’t waste any time throwing us a tearjerker.


6 posted on 09/24/2023 7:14:55 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown

Bummer.

7 posted on 09/24/2023 7:16:05 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They don't think you know but I know that you do.ish )
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How many federal workers in DC are working from home?


8 posted on 09/24/2023 7:16:19 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fedzilla NEVER shuts down.

Deep State will deem most of it essential and the parts that aid Deep State will continue to do so.

Anything that Deep State shutters will be the parts that can be used to put the screws to the public.


9 posted on 09/24/2023 7:17:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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From the article and in the source:"as Congress careers toward a government shutdown."

Nice editing, editor.

I think you meant 'careens'.

10 posted on 09/24/2023 7:18:01 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (I choose TRUMP over Tyranny )
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Shutdown for federal workers, my a$$. VACATION for federal layabouts as they will be paid every check missed.


11 posted on 09/24/2023 7:18:50 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Jim Noble

SHUT IT DOWN. Any federal worker who can’t scrape by for a few weeks isn’t very resourceful or self sufficient.


12 posted on 09/24/2023 7:19:19 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown............

Hopefully that includes the mega-paid political operatives staffing DC govt agencies.


13 posted on 09/24/2023 7:20:15 AM PDT by Liz ( 2024 Dems will have the same guy with the same team around him, just older.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Put it at permanent risk.


14 posted on 09/24/2023 7:20:16 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The typical scare tactics. And they nearly always work.


15 posted on 09/24/2023 7:21:03 AM PDT by CatOwner
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I don’t want government employees or their families to suffer.

I would like them to have even better jobs in the private sector.


16 posted on 09/24/2023 7:21:30 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

500,000 home grown Zelensky’s demanding a living large life.


17 posted on 09/24/2023 7:21:45 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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The last time it happened, it was horrible. Se were out for a whole day. And they paid us for it.

The time before it was a little bit longer. They paid us for the missed time.

It seems like it happened once or twice while I was active duty. I don’t think it impacted us. For the civilians, it was the same drill. It has been many years since civil service lost paychecks because of a shutdown. (It’s always possible.)


18 posted on 09/24/2023 7:22:21 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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Most of us are dedicated civil servants

Every civil servant needs to look around and ask himself a number of questions:

  1. Is my day filled with constitutionally allowed and useful work that provide value to the taxpayer?
  2. Can I do my job with fewer subordinates?
  3. How much of my time is spent providing direct and useful service to the taxpaying public?
  4. How much of my time is spent dealing with support service contractors whose job is to justify more support service contractors by taking up more time from their federal "supervisors?"
  5. should my whole deparment be eliminated?
  6. should my whole agency be eliminated?
  7. Have I vocally advocated for substantial improvements in delivery of value to the taxpayer?
  8. Am I reviled for this? [no? you're not trying hard enough]

Unfortunately the answer to these questions is likely not what folks want to hear. Federal salaries are a drop in the bucket of the cost of government. What has mushroomed beyond comprehension are all the unneeded services that are contracted out to insiders who have sweetheart deals to take in money and provide little in return, except the grease that turns the wheels of corruption in the swamp. It's alwasy been there but the Bush/Cheney team showed how the professional crooks do it.

19 posted on 09/24/2023 7:23:19 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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interesting that they would stop paying federal workers, Social Security recipients and military first. But continue funding their foreign wars and lining their own pockets. You wont see any senators going without pay.


20 posted on 09/24/2023 7:23:45 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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