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Posted on 10/07/2025 11:14:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers may not automatically receive back pay once the government reopens, the White House indicated in a draft memo, prompting broad fears that the Trump administration might try to circumvent federal law to maximize the pain of the shutdown.
The memo, which was shared by a White House official, could presage a radical break from a policy adopted during President Trump’s first term. It appeared to contradict some of the administration’s own guidance, which by Tuesday still indicated that furloughed employees would receive retroactive pay shortly after Congress strikes a funding deal.
Following the longest shutdown in history — a five-week closure that began under Mr. Trump at the end of 2018 — Congress adopted a law that guaranteed back pay for the millions of federal workers who often bear the financial brunt of funding lapses. That measure, known as the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, applied not only to that closure but future fiscal lapses, ending a major source of uncertainty for federal workers caught in the political fray.
Mr. Tump signed that measure into law in 2019. But his administration six years later now appears to have interpreted its guarantees much differently. In the draft memo, the White House budget office said that only the workers who are deemed as essential — military service members, air traffic controllers and others still working while the government is closed — are entitled to pay once the stalemate ends. For those who are furloughed, the White House memo lays out the case that Congress still must explicitly approve funding for the payments.
Union officials and Democratic lawmakers quickly blasted Mr. Trump for what they described as only the latest attempt to use federal workers as bargaining chips during the shutdown. The president separately has threatened...
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If the workers are legally owed the money then they should be paid.
Notice how the New York Slimes use the word “MAY” in the title???
Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
I agree. This would be a huge blunder, not only for that Administration but also for the Stupid Party.
Who thought this one up?
The words “may, might, could, maybe, appears, possibly” are used in almost every Slimes article against Trump or conservatives...
Were they working? If they were I did not notice.
Why would they get paid?
Did they leave out the "unnamed source"?
The NYT is trying to set up a "both sides" equivalence here.
-PJ
TDS BS and DNC shillin' from the New York Slimes.
They were on furlough because of the shutdown. They were kept from working, it was not their choice.
OMB can claim that all they want. If they are weasling to avoid prior precedent and policy set by Trump previously that is wrong.
Rank and file workers should not be financial cannon fodder in Trump’s fight with Democratic congress critters.
I don’t see the problem here.
Plenty of agencies are actually closed, now. I went to some websites and they tell you that.
If I don’t report to work, why should I get paid?
Thanks. This is not a good move by Trump. The Democrats who caused the shutdown will not suffer financially because of the shutdown. These workers have and will experience setbacks that they probably can ill afford. That is wrong and unfair.
If they didn’t work, why should they be paid?
This is a great way to get people to leave government.
If employees show up at a restaurant and it is closed that day, they don’t get paid, either.
Remember what President Trump said, they could close down entire agencies in a shutdown. It’s a nice way to make these gummit leaches quit with some perks in a package separation instead of getting fired and receive nothing.
The republic comes first.
If they want back pay and need to show up to get it, get their butts into work.
If the law states that they are entitled to back pay regardless, then they should get it.
If the law doesn’t state that then taxpayers should not be used as cash cows.
The public does NOT exist to serve our public sector.
Lives, fortunes, and sacred honor time, public employees.
Pick a side: Our republic or Deep State.
Choose wisely.
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