That's nice but it's $10 a person, ignores non-miliatry federal workers, and should be no more necessary than US citizens having to do a GoFundMe for their kid to get cancer treatments.
How about team red approve paying the Federal workforce, instead?
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Democrats were instead backing a bill from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)
that would pay all federal workers during the shutdown — furloughed employees, servicemembers and contractors. It also would bar the Trump administration from using “reductions in force” orders to fire workers for the duration of the funding lapse.
“Republicans are hell-bent on letting Trump pick winners and losers here, but
every federal worker, servicemember, and federal contractor deserves to get paid,” Van Hollen said in a statement Thursday.
Democrats asked for unanimous consent Thursday to pass their proposal on the Senate floor, which Van Hollen introduced less than an hour before the scheduled vote on Johnson’s bill.
That effort was blocked by Republicans."
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Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) also sought unanimous consent approval for his own federal employee pay bill, that would have provided a one-time appropriation to pay servicemembers, federal employees and contractors missing paychecks during the shutdown.
His request was also defeated by Republicans. He and Van Hollen supported each other’s bills."
https://www.politico.com/live-updat...ts-pay-plan-for-some-federal-workers-00620433
