Trump Administration Threatens To Buck The Law, Not Pay Furloughed Federal Workers

George Mihalcea

WASHINGTON ― The White House suggested Tuesday that furloughed federal workers won’t necessarily get paid when the government eventually reopens, contrary to a law signed by President Donald Trump in 2019. The law states that all furloughed workers “shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations,” also known as a government shutdown. But an anonymous White House official claimed to Axios that there is some confusion about the statute: “Does this law cover all these furloughed

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