There’s an outdated canard that is still fashionable in conservative circles. It alleges that federal staff are layabouts who keep away from helpful work. If that had been true and never a drained proper wing slander, it’d apply finest to the federal government staff we all know as our congressmen and senators.
The federal government is at the moment shut down with mounting destructive penalties, not least of which is the possibility of flights being canceled because of unpaid air traffic controllers abandoning their duties. Despite this, the House of Representatives has not been in session since Sept. 18 whereas the Senate cannot concoct a compromise that will get the government functioning again.
Democrats in Congress have given up on being the adults within the room who all the time did no matter wanted to be performed to keep away from a chronic shutdown. This time round, they’re refusing to offer Republicans the votes they should get a funding invoice via till federal well being care subsidies are restored.
Republicans, in the meantime, locked of their inflexible ideology and obeisance to Donald Trump, have forgotten the primary rule of politics: for those who wouldn’t have the votes to move a invoice, you must compromise to get them.
All of this raises a query: With the federal government on maintain and federal staff going unpaid, have these shirkers in Congress given themselves an exemption so that they nonetheless get their checks on time?
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