Democrats in the Senate rejected a House GOP proposal to keep funds flowing through Nov. 21, while Republicans scuttled a competing Democratic bill with health care provisions.
I genuinely don’t know the answer to that question, but if the answer is “no,” then I think we’ve uncovered a significant clue. Personally I feel like a huge part of the top Democrats’ horrifying fecklessness on all of these type of issues is that, at the end of the day, they’ll be fine, and you can sometime divine their priorities by seeing what does make them start sweating and working hard to avoid.
More or less as soon as I typed it I realized, you know what, that’s a stupid question, I would be very very surprised if they don’t get paid.
I still feel like the fact that it impacts their workplace directly, is the reason they freak the fuck out about it and start actually trying, in a way they usually don’t when someone else is getting kidnapped to an ICE facility or losing their workplace or home or family or life.
Does congress still get paid during a shutdown?
I genuinely don’t know the answer to that question, but if the answer is “no,” then I think we’ve uncovered a significant clue. Personally I feel like a huge part of the top Democrats’ horrifying fecklessness on all of these type of issues is that, at the end of the day, they’ll be fine, and you can sometime divine their priorities by seeing what does make them start sweating and working hard to avoid.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-1/ALDE_00001044/
It’s in the Constitution that they get paid.
Lol, of course they still get paid!
More or less as soon as I typed it I realized, you know what, that’s a stupid question, I would be very very surprised if they don’t get paid.
I still feel like the fact that it impacts their workplace directly, is the reason they freak the fuck out about it and start actually trying, in a way they usually don’t when someone else is getting kidnapped to an ICE facility or losing their workplace or home or family or life.