Shutdown without payment. White House: Knives do not pay to officials

The White House announced that employees sent for a forced vacation in connection with the paralysis of the work of the federal administration may not receive remuneration for this period, contrary to their current practice – said Axios and other media on Tuesday. According to Politico, it is part of the pressure to the opposition to give way and allow Shutdown at the end.

According to Axios, information that employees sent on vacation may not have the right to remuneration for this period was in the internal legal analysis of the White House, whose existence was confirmed by representatives of the administration. Already after the publication, doubts as to whether he received payment was also expressed by the chairman of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson.

The interpretation of the White House is contrary to the current understanding and practice in this respect – on the Johnson website there is information that Posted on vacation because of Shutdown will receive overdue salary. In connection with the expiry of the budget and the failure to do the new one, from October 1 there are about 750 thousand on such a vacation. federal employees.

According to Politico, the described document is another element of the pressure exerted by the White House to force the Democrats to vote on the budget provision proposed by the Republicans and the ending of Shutdow. The opposition party blocks the temporary “pure” extension of the earlier budget in the Senate, because it demands the restoration of expiring payments to private health insurance of millions of Americans within the system known colloquially as Obamacare.

The White House threatened earlier that if Shutdown was prolonged, the mass layoffs of officials sent on vacation would start. The administration also suspended or canceled a number of large infrastructure and energy investments in New York (where both Democrats leaders in Congress, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer) and other states ruled by Democrats come from.

Despite this, and despite the conversations between the parties, the impasse has been ongoing for almost a week, and on Monday the Senate once again rejected the provisional project.

From Washington Oskar Górzyński (PAP)

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