South Carolina firebrand running for governor allegedly abused agents working without pay during shutdown
The US representative Nancy Mace, a Republican firebrand running for South Carolina governor, is drawing scrutiny after a police report described her berating airport police and TSA agents as she was being escorted to a gate last week.
The profane incident at the Charleston international airport threatens to derail her run as she said she would sue the airport authority for defamation and false reporting.
An initial incident report from the Charleston county aviation authority police department first obtained by Wired describes Mace cursing at airport staff, saying that this was no way to treat a “f—ing U.S. representative”. She invoked the name of South Carolina senator Tim Scott, saying that the Republican lawmaker would not be treated as she was, according to the report.
Yes, all federal employees will get back pay, regardless of whether they were working or not. That was a law passed during Trump 1, iirc.
Not that it makes it easy to go a month without a paycheck, but you do get your money after the fact.
Back-paying furloughed federal employees after a shutdown predates Trump, FYI. That’s been the policy for a long time. It was made a law during Trump’s first term.
Of course, now they are threatening to not back pay them or, at least, omitting language about back pay from letters to furloughed employees.
Just remember laws evidently don’t hold any real weight anymore so nothing is settled until it’s settled. Here’s one of many articles about intentions to block back pay: https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-workers-back-bay-shutdown-785eb776d2312d1f68f7e91961d0a93a
So they’re working without any guarantee that they’ll get paid for their time? Fuck that noise, that’s just slavery.
This is the GOP. They are fine with slavery.
The people working are guaranteed pay by labor law. No one is debating not paying the people actually working.
Any talk of not paying people is about those government employees who are currently furloughed.
Trump has a history of not paying people who “are guaranteed pay by labor law.”
Johnson is such a fucking worm. Any time he is asked about literally anything, this is what he says. Some bullshit about how he hasn’t read it yet. Why does it still fucking work? It’s your fucking job to read it and know what’s in it you piece of shit.
Little Mikey doesn’t seem to know anything about anything, including things in the news. Just claims he is working so very hard and is concentrating on - pause for laughter - the American people. He says this during his party’s shutdown, no less.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-johnson-mocked-for-repeatedly-insisting-he-doesn-t-know-anything-about-president-trump/ar-AA1PMtMc
Sure, but if I was a betting man, I’d say there’s a good 95% chance they get paid. It’s bad politics to do otherwise.
I’m not saying they’ll do it because the law says so. Just that there’s a lot of reasons not doing it only hurts them with no real benefits.
It’s bad politics to deny people on assistance programs food. The cruelty is the point.
For everybody’s sake, I hope you’re right.
I’d think sending tens of billions of dollars to foreign governments - plus spending hundreds of millions on aesthetic remodeling of the white house - while simultaneously threatening and endangering the food security and medical coverage of the entire country would be considered bad politics, too. At this point I honestly wouldn’t even be surprised if they try spinning furloughed workers as attempting an insurrection or something and that the workers actually owe money to the government for their machinations.
Federal employees will get back pay if that provision is in a bill that Congress will eventually pass. It’s not a guarantee, as you stated.
It was a mandated provision by law passed in 2019: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/24
isn’t it common practice/advice in the USA to have a buffer ? I know not everyone has the opportunity to do so, but I taught my kids to aim for a buffer of at least 2x netto paycheck to cover emergencies/unforeseen. Or if the own a house, car etc aim for 8x. They still do that and it helped them to stay out of debt (other than for buying the house).
It’s common advice but not necessarily common practice. A huge number of people live paycheck to paycheck, including those with higher incomes.
While having a buffer of some sort is good practice and certainly a recommended one, pricing and inflation have gone through the roof lately. I don’t know how that may affect one’s financial planning/preparation, esp in a case like this where there is not necessarily an end in sight.
I would be interested to see how many folks here have something like that and how long it’s able to sustain them. Will it be recovered in the aftermath? Trump does have an allergy to debt-paying…