Over 800,000 federal workers are impacted by the partial government shutdown that began Saturday, after Senate Democrats called Donald Trump’s bluff on funding for his stupid Border Wall By Any Other Name. Republican lawmakers—like Freedom Caucus kooks Mark Meadows and Scott Perry—seem to think it’s no big deal to deny government workers their paychecks while they both continue to collect their Constitutionally-protected six-figure salaries.
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto, both Democrats, see things a little differently.
Cortez-Masto, the soon-to-be senior senator from Nevada, who also happens to be Nevada’s first-ever woman Senator and the first-ever Latina elected to the Senate, has, for the second time this year, used her platform to protest politicians’ shutdown paychecks.
In January, Cortez-Masto was joined in this pledge by Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, alongside several other members of Congress who also made donations or asked for their paychecks to be “withheld.”
New York’s Ocasio-Cortez, on the other hand, is using her immense social media reach this weekend to demand changes to end the Constitutional rule that allows decision makers to essentially be unaffected by the choices they make.
The White House Office of Management and Budget has promised that employees will be paid for the period ending December 22, but if the shutdown continues past January 5, these public servants won’t get a dime.
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