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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKamala Harris provides shutdown stats on how many Federal workers stand to lose Christmas pay.
Kamala Harris
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If Trump shuts down the government, hundreds of thousands of federal employees will work without pay in the days before Christmas, including about:
53,000 TSA workers
42,000 Coast Guard employees
41,000 law enforcement and corrections officers
5,000 Forest Service firefighters
1:05 PM - 20 Dec 2018
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@SenKamalaHarris
If Trump shuts down the government, hundreds of thousands of federal employees will work without pay in the days before Christmas, including about:
53,000 TSA workers
42,000 Coast Guard employees
41,000 law enforcement and corrections officers
5,000 Forest Service firefighters
1:05 PM - 20 Dec 2018
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Kamala Harris provides shutdown stats on how many Federal workers stand to lose Christmas pay. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Dec 2018
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dlk
(11,592 posts)1. Thank You GOP!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. That's because they're all losers
If they wanted to get paid, they should be the president. Donald Trump is president, and he's getting paid. Paul Ryan's paycheck will cash just fine. Oh, and his pension payment better not be late. Mitch McConnell's office is still bigger than everyone else's.
Rocky888
(297 posts)3. While the trump crime family charges taxpayers $millions for their 2 week lavish vacations.
Cha
(297,911 posts)4. Thank You, Kamala!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,526 posts)5. such stats should be on the news every hour of the trumpdown
MiniMe
(21,722 posts)6. And I think most of those people are designated as necessary
Or whatever their terminology is, critical persons or something. They will be expected to work, but won't get paid. Grrrrr.