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After the shutdown, as is always the case, agencies will choose to try to be more efficient as companies do after a strike. There will be legal efforts to reduce the numbers ordered by agency heads (after Trump demands that to be the case).There seems to be some confusion that non-essential means not necessary. .
One of the bones of contention is that the ACA subsidies are being removed, which will cause some people's insurance costs to skyrocket.
ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire
At some point, the COVID subsidy will be restored partially or in full. Obamacare is very popular.Real Americans. Who Matter. Like Marjorie Taylor Greene's children.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes
Greene said she's "not a fan" of Obamacare [oh yes you apparently are] but complained that her "own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE" if Congress ignores the issue.
She goes on to make clear that this has nothing to do with giving illegals healthcare. Because it doesn't.
If you won't give me what I want, then let's have single combat. ROFLHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, clearly fed up with the ongoing shutdown and Republican stonewalling, challenged Johnson to a live floor debate on Monday, as federal agencies remained closed into a second week. Jeffries’ goal? Force some honesty into the conversation and shine a light on why the GOP is holding up the process.
At a Monday press conference, Johnson flatly rejected the idea, calling Jeffries’ offer “nonsense” and labeling the Minority Leader “desperate.” He brushed off the challenge. “I respect him, but we all know what he’s trying to do there,” he insisted, according to Politico.
Speaker Johnson could open the House for business, rather than extending their vacation.If you won't give me what I want, then let's have single combat. ROFL
Hmm...not paying people who worked for you. On brand for Trump.my hedging was not for nothing.
White House memo says furloughed workers might not get back pay
Axios first reported on the memo, which was later confirmed to POLITICO by administration officials in the White House and Office of Management and Budget. They were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.
The memo appears to contravene the 2019 “Government Employee Fair Treatment Act,” signed by President Donald Trump during his first term after a partial shutdown that stretched over 35 days. And it paints a cloudy economic picture for the 750,000 federal workers currently under furlough.
The memo appears to contradict guidance from the Office of Personnel Management issued in September, which advises federal employees that “after the lapse in appropriations has ended, employees who were furloughed as the result of the lapse will receive retroactive pay for those furlough periods.”
BREAKING
Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims
The top lawyer at the White House Office of Management and Budget argued that the law Congress passed and Trump signed guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers in 2019 does no such thing, according to a new draft memo obtained by The Post.
???Speaker Johnson could open the House for business, rather than extending their vacation.
How are they going to be able to vote once a deal is made? Why insert a unnecessary delay????
What business should the House be doing with so many furloughed (probably including staff)?
The best place for House members is in their districts listening to their voters (ready to come back on 48-hour notice).
If we just make an exception for Trump, this one time, he’ll fix it so we’ll never have to go down this road again! Somehow.Hmm...not paying people who worked for you. On brand for Trump.
-- A2SG, he's consistent, gotta give him that....
The nice thing about injecting chaos into a system is the praise you get when you fix what you broke.500 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics are now closing or at risk of closure because of the Republican bill that guts health care funding, per Protect Our Care.
Hospital Crisis Watch: Senator Murphy and Protect Our Care Mark Grim Milestone of 500 Providers at Risk of Closing or Closed Due to GOP Health Care Crisis — Protect Our Care
Protect Our Care’s Hospital Crisis Watch Map Now Shows 500 Health Care Providers at Risk of Closing Due to the GOP Health Care Crisis Washington, D.C. — Protect Our Care’s...www.protectourcare.org
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Sure. I mean, if you can't trust a guy convicted of felony fraud 34 times, who can you trust?If we just make an exception for Trump, this one time, he’ll fix it so we’ll never have to go down this road again! Somehow.
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