Trump is hurting employees to get a wall the majority of people don’t want. The Republican senate bill has provisions to make asylum harder – it’s not just the wall.
Open the government. It’s Trump’s shutdown (or should I say Fox News’s shutdown since they call the shots). I think we are paying Trump $400,000 to watch Fox TV and tell us what it says. If I wanted to know, I would watch it myself.
The U.S. government shutdown, the longest on record, is prompting tens of thousands of federal employees to file for unemployment https://t.co/JeOvDTU2gz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 21, 2019
Federal employees shouldn’t be used as pawns. We can’t continue to ask federal workers to be furloughed or work without pay every time the president doesn’t get his way. That’s why I plan to vote yes on the House Democratic plan to reopen the government. pic.twitter.com/wqc9oszx77
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) January 22, 2019
As we mark day 32 of the Trump shutdown, the operation of agencies and programs that keep Americans safe, housed, and fed continue to be put in peril.
And, more than 800,000 federal employees still have not been paid.
It is far past time for the President to #EndTheShutdown.
— Elijah E. Cummings (@RepCummings) January 22, 2019
.@WCKitchen says the Resource Center will provide support, groceries, as well as diapers and pet food to employees on furlough. https://t.co/2t1Ig5D3j1
— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) January 21, 2019
I don't think Trump has any idea what his shutdown is doing to federal employee families, and I doubt he'd care if he did. It's especially hard on those forced to work for free, who can't work other jobs while they're on duty. Some can't afford gas to get to work or childcare.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) January 22, 2019
The firefighters who responded to the fire in the Lincoln National Forest are furloughed, federal employees. Apparently, Senator Mitch McConnell thinks the wall is more important than paying these firefighters who saved people's homes. #WheresMitch https://t.co/Dxu8jXKwvw
— Congresswoman Deb Haaland (@RepDebHaaland) January 22, 2019
And Rachel at the top of the show voiced the thought that few (folks like @MalcolmNance and @sarahkendzior and some others excepted) dare think: that the intense suffering the shutdown is causing federal employees may not be the fallout, but rather the point.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 22, 2019
USDA employee, Forrest Pitt, tells @marianaatencio that the "political football" of the government shutdown has been "devastating."https://t.co/ymY9iJOSZK
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 22, 2019
As a businessman, Donald Trump repeatedly failed to pay contractors and stiffed others on the bill.
As president, he’s forcing federal employees to work without pay and is doing nothing to reopen the government.
Is anyone surprised?
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) January 22, 2019
Federal employees are bracing themselves for their second missed paycheck. If the government doesn't reopen today in time to make payroll, some 800,000 workers won't get paid for a second pay cycle in a row.
Follow for more updates: https://t.co/jJVieeKGwZ
— CNN (@CNN) January 22, 2019
There's a payroll deadline tonight, meaning hundreds of thousands of federal employees are more likely to miss a second paycheck. https://t.co/5eS83CftZr
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 22, 2019
They don’t understand the problems the employees have:
Federal Employees Going Through 'A Little Bit of Pain' But Border Wall is 'Bigger Than' Them Says Lara Trump https://t.co/ku5kei0Yaj
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) January 22, 2019
Sad! 