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Government shutdowns have been happening for years, they should just make it an official holiday week
Of course it’s also one of the biggest causes of “waste, fraud and abuse” in government. So far they have always paid people retroactively. They need to. But that means that congress screwing around not doing their job, causes millions of workers to sit at home doing nothing while still eventually getting paid.
I know this time they’re threatening permanent firings but they’ll always find something worse to threaten. It’s time to stand our ground.
If MAGAts care enough about depriving millions of healthcare, let them shut it down. If MAGAts care about illegal firings that will bog the government down in lawsuits for decades, let them shut it down. If MAGAts care enough about denying medical rights to any marginalized groups, let them shut it down. If MAGAts want to impose martial law, let them shut it down
On a similar note, I have a friend who is a government auditor. Most of her coworkers were DOGEd several months ago. Now that it's the end of the fiscal year, they realized they needed all those auditors back.
So they've attempted to rehire them. Except some don't want to come back having retired or found new jobs.
The ones that did come back got 100% back pay for the time they were let go. So we essentially paid them to do nothing.
But also, they get their backdated PTO that they would have earned. Except they can only carry over a PTO balance of so much without losing it, so everyone that came back immediately had to go on PTO.
So not only did we pay them for nothing, we also brought them back to pay them for nothing. All while making the government actively worse.
The Department of Government Efficiency, ladies and gentlemen.
Crazy