Rapidcreek@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agoHouse Republicans search for a strategy to avert a shutdownwww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down13
arrow-up192arrow-down1external-linkHouse Republicans search for a strategy to avert a shutdownwww.nbcnews.comRapidcreek@reddthat.com to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareNuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoAnd folk like TSA and ATC have to work regardless. Doing a lot of travel in a few weeks. Planned ahead with some massive (3 or 4 hour) connections but… yeah.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·9 months agoThe VA is the largest healthcare provider in America… If there’s a shutdown, they all have to keep working and none of them get paid till after the shutdown. And to get them all paid, other federal workers need to do a bunch of overtime to get it done ASAP. So it costs even more to pay them what they should have been paid. It’s disappointing to see so many people act like this is somehow a positive for anyone.
And folk like TSA and ATC have to work regardless.
Doing a lot of travel in a few weeks. Planned ahead with some massive (3 or 4 hour) connections but… yeah.
The VA is the largest healthcare provider in America…
If there’s a shutdown, they all have to keep working and none of them get paid till after the shutdown.
And to get them all paid, other federal workers need to do a bunch of overtime to get it done ASAP.
So it costs even more to pay them what they should have been paid.
It’s disappointing to see so many people act like this is somehow a positive for anyone.