Republicans are clueless when it comes to furloughed workers, saying that government workers don’t mind being furloughed and they’re basically on vacation. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of workers missed their first paycheck and do not know when their next paycheck will come.
Trump’s top economic adviser said hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed without pay were basically getting free vacation.
Kevin Hassett: “Workers are furloughed, and right now, it’s about 25 percent of government workers are furloughed, which means that they are not allowed to go to work. But then, when the shutdown ends, they go back to work and they get their back pay. A huge share of government workers were going to take vacation days, say, between Christmas and New Year’s. And then we have a shutdown, and so they can’t go to work, and so then they have the vacation, but they don’t have to use their vacation days. And then they come back, and then they get their back pay. Then they’re — in some sense, they’re better off.”
Trump’s former campaign adviser wrote off workers not getting paid, saying “it’s for time they’re not even going to the office.”
Barry Bennett: “‘It’s inconvenient that they’re not getting paid,’ Barry Bennett, a former Trump campaign adviser, said of the furloughed workers. ‘But it’s for time they’re not even going into the office.’” Continue reading “Republicans Are Out Of Touch With Furloughed Workers”