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MARTIN CIZMAR
26 DEC 2018 AT 13:03 ET
Presidential advisers Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have faced criticism for taking a beach vacation during the shutdown of the federal government, reports Yahoo News.
Although their typically active social media accounts have been uncharacteristically quiet about their holiday plans, the presidents daughter and her husband are sunning themselves at Mar-a-Lago.
Federal employees who are not subject to furlough are required to work during a government shutdown. There is a no exceptions rule which required non-furloughed federal employees to cancel their vacations and show up to work on Wednesday.
Employees who arent furloughed during a shutdown cant take any time off for vacation, illness or religious obligations, according to the governments Office of Personnel Management rules, Bloomberg reported. Effectively, this means that employees who were planning to take time off between the Christmas and New Years holidays have to cancel their plans.
However, as Yahoo noted, the presidents daughter and her husband, who are employed as advisers to him, appear to have been exempted.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/ivanka-jared-caught-defying-rule-banning-federal-employees-vacation-shutdown/
While countless people are taking time off from work for the holiday, the couple are facing scrutiny because their government jobs should require them to be working back in D.C., writes Yahoo. Kushner in particular was reportedly involved in negotiations to resolve the shutdown over funding for Trumps proposed border wall.
Instead, Ivanka was spotted out for a jog with Secret Service protection. Jared was spotted walking around in the Florida sun in flip-flops.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)After all, neither of them is drawing a paycheck (*wink wink*) so they can get around that "no nepotism" law.
sprinkleeninow
(20,212 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)NOT allow them to work in the administration because you cant do that when you are family but that rule doesnt apply to this bunch.
I guess.
No rules apply to them, and the reason is simple: rump and kushners are extreme racists and 35% of this country are also extreme racists. period
onenote
(42,576 posts)I thought much of the office of the president was funded separately from the departments covered by the appropriations bills that haven't been passed.
niyad
(113,049 posts)turbinetree
(24,683 posts)niyad
(113,049 posts)Gothmog
(144,908 posts)Link to tweet
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kacekwl
(7,012 posts)seriously need to find a tailor. They're suits fit like shit.
tikka
(762 posts)Gothmog
(144,908 posts)Link to tweet
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