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Republicans Shut Down the Federal Government Again & Suffer Humiliating Defeat

What percent do ya figure are Democrats?

The old numbers during the Obama years were 44% Democrat versus 40% Republican. Veterans preference has been making the Federal workforce more Republican especially for entrance level jobs.
 
I like that rubes latch onto the word essential and non-essential when in reality it’s shit gets done that is critical in nature and time sensitive while things that do need to get done just sit and wait but doesn’t mean they don’t need to get done. It’s why a shutdown costs money and is a stupid thing.
 
The old numbers during the Obama years were 44% Democrat versus 40% Republican. Veterans preference has been making the Federal workforce more Republican especially for entrance level jobs.

Whoa, wait a minute, these numbers indicate that Trump may have been wrong in his tweet.
 
Not only are we going to take your job away during the holidays, we’re going to fucking nix your planned raise once we get off our ass and stop playing politics.

Merry Christmas assholes.

Sincerely,

Trump and the GOP


Trump issues order freezing pay rate for federal workers


President Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers’ pay for 2019, following through on a pledge earlier this year to nix an across-the-board pay increase.

Trump had announced in August that he would cancel the 2.1 percent pay increase, which was slated to take effect in January.

The order also cancels the “locality pay increase,” which adjusts paychecks based on the region of the country where workers are posted.

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...s-order-freezing-pay-rate-for-federal-workers
 
Not only are we going to take your job away during the holidays, we’re going to fucking nix your planned raise once we get off our ass and stop playing politics.

Merry Christmas assholes.

Sincerely,

Trump and the GOP


Trump issues order freezing pay rate for federal workers


President Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers’ pay for 2019, following through on a pledge earlier this year to nix an across-the-board pay increase.

Trump had announced in August that he would cancel the 2.1 percent pay increase, which was slated to take effect in January.

The order also cancels the “locality pay increase,” which adjusts paychecks based on the region of the country where workers are posted.

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...s-order-freezing-pay-rate-for-federal-workers

While raising military pay 10%, their first raise in a decade!!!
 
From Axios:

Shutdown, Day 11 ... Human waste, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other bad behavior in fragile areas is beginning to overwhelm some of the West's iconic national parks, AP's Ellen Knickmeyer and Jocelyn Gecker report:

The partial government shutdown has left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty.
"It's a free-for-all," Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said, as Yosemite National Park officials announced closings of some minimally supervised campgrounds and public areas.
Why it matters: Unlike shutdowns in some previous administrations, the Trump administration was leaving parks open to visitors.

"It's really a nightmare scenario," said John Garder, senior budget director of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association. "We’re afraid that we’re going to start seeing significant damage to the natural resources in parks and potentially to historic and other cultural artifacts."

Spotted:
"In Sequoia, home to [California's] ancient giant sequoias, General Highway was closed because overflowing trash bins were spreading litter and posed a threat to wildlife."
"[T]he icy, jammed roadway was seeing up to three-hour delays."
"Campers at Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California's deserts were reporting squabbles as different families laid claims to sites, with no rangers on hand to adjudicate."
"Some visitors have strung Christmas lights in the twisting Joshua trees, many of which are hundreds of years old."
"At Yosemite, ... crowds of visitors were driving into the park to take advantage of free admission."
"Visitors were allowing their dogs to run off-leash in an area rich with bears and other wildlife, and scattering bags of garbage along the roads."
"In Yellowstone National Park, private companies have picked up some of the maintenance normally done by federal workers."

"The contractors that operate park tours by snowmobile, buses and vans are grooming trails, hauling trash and replacing toilet paper at pit toilets and restrooms along their routes."
 
Many news outlets are reporting this morning that Trump is open to a deal where he gets his wall funding and the Dems get DACA permanent protections. Seems like a pretty fair trade, but that is exactly what Schumer offer to Trump a year ago before the last shutdown, which Trump refused and led to a series of short term continuing resolutions and eventually to this current shutdown.
 
Many news outlets are reporting this morning that Trump is open to a deal where he gets his wall funding and the Dems get DACA permanent protections. Seems like a pretty fair trade, but that is exactly what Schumer offer to Trump a year ago before the last shutdown, which Trump refused and led to a series of short term continuing resolutions and eventually to this current shutdown.

Except Trump will only gets $2-4B for permanent DACA vs. the $25B he was offered a year ago.

GREAT DEAL!!!!
 
Trump might take the DACA for $5B deal...right up until some right wing pundit cries about it and he changes his mind.
 
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