Trump Needs To Fund The TSA ASAP

[ElCubano]

Stay to end he references our TSA frontline. Funniest comedian.

 

[Arnie]

https://www.google.com/search?q=TSA...me..69i57j0.8197j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[Tony Stark]

GOP offers to pay federal employees who work during the shutdown
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ederal-employees-who-work-during-the-shutdown

Dems need to take this deal imo.

 

[gwb-trading]

A bipartisan bill was pre-approved by both Senate and House that would've kept the government open weeks ago, but Anne Coulter said no and Mitch buckled like a cuck.

And the TSA needs to go on strike yesterday. Shut this silliness down now, once and for all.

The problem is that government workers should never have their pay and work held hostage by politicians in Washington squabbling over political initiatives. The continuing spending resolution methods that our D.C. federal politicians have sunk to which cause this type of situation needs to be stopped. The government should be required to adopt and pass a budget each year. If the budget does not pass for some reason then government operations should continue but on "austerity" at the existing budget levels with all departments open. (meaning no increase in spending / pay raises).

 

[CaptainObvious]

House rejects GOP measure to pay workers but not open government
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...easure-to-pay-workers-but-not-open-government

The House rejected a GOP measure to pay furloughed workers but keep the government closed in a 222-195 vote.

Six Democrats voted for the GOP measure, offered as an alternative to a Democratic bill to reopen the government.

The Democratic bill, which would have funded the government through Feb. 28, is expected to be approved but is dead on arrival in the Senate. A vote on that measure will be postponed until next week.

The move comes as parties continue to point fingers over who bears the responsibility for the ongoing partial government shutdown. Republicans have accused Democrats of failing to take negotiations on border security and President Trump's border wall seriously, calling on negotiators to put forward a compromise.

“While Democrats flail under their misguided leadership, Republicans continue to offer solutions. This time we are working to get federal employees paid and give Democrats time to negotiate an end to the shutdown,” a spokeswoman for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in an email to reporters.

Top Democrats, who have blasted Trump’s call for $5.7 billion for border security including a physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, alleging Republicans are holding the government hostage over a partisan priority. Democrats have called on the administration to reopen the government before they negotiate funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

“This is a political stunt to distract from the fact that Republicans are about to vote for the ninth time to keep the government shutdown,” a Democratic aide told The Hill on the GOP motion.

And there it is. This tells us everything we need to know about who is negotiating in good faith, and who is just trying to score political points regardless of the consequences. Couple kids die at the border, whatever, orange man bad. People go without pay. Tough luck, we have a narrative to push. A plane gets jacked, few hundred people die, hey it's all for the greater good to bring Trump down.

 

[Cuddles]

The problem is that government workers should never have their pay and work held hostage by politicians in Washington squabbling over political initiatives. The continuing spending resolution methods that our D.C. federal politicians have sunk to which cause this type of situation needs to be stopped. The government should be required to adopt and pass a budget each year. If the budget does not pass for some reason then government operations should continue but on "austerity" at the existing budget levels with all departments open. (meaning no increase in spending / pay raises).

Agreed, which is why TSA needs to shut down air travel to send Washington a message to stop doing this BS.

And there it is. This tells us everything we need to know about who is negotiating in good faith, and who is just trying to score political points regardless of the consequences. Couple kids die at the border, whatever, orange man bad. People go without pay. Tough luck, we have a narrative to push. A plane gets jacked, few hundred people die, hey it's all for the greater good to bring Trump down.

I'm glad we agree Trump's trying to push the narrative of a non existent threat at our borders to score some political points with a bunch of racists.

 

[Tom B]

Why Don’t Unpaid Federal Workers Walk Off the Job?

The law prohibits them from striking
TheNational Labor Relations Actextends a right to strike to American workers — but it specifically does not give that right to government workers. A law passed during President Jimmy Carter’s administration bars federal workers from striking. When air traffic controllers walked off the job in 1981, demanding better pay and working conditions, President Ronald Reagan ordered them to return to work. When they did not, he fired them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/us/politics/shutdown-federal-workers-strike.html

 

[newwurldmn]

And there it is. This tells us everything we need to know about who is negotiating in good faith, and who is just trying to score political points regardless of the consequences.

Totally true.

There was a bill. It had bipartisan support. Trump killed it. Republican Senate leadership fell into line behind him.

Trump killed it to score political points with his base. He even said that he will take the blame for the shutdown. He doesn’t care about the employees.

 

[TJustice]

Those funding bills are very different. Not the same.

Totally true.

There was a bill. It had bipartisan support. Trump killed it. Republican Senate leadership fell into line behind him.

Trump killed it to score political points with his base. He even said that he will take the blame for the shutdown. He doesn’t care about the employees.

 

[newwurldmn]

Those funding bills are very different. Not the same.

Yes. One was a real funding bill which allowed for discussion about the wall later.

The other is a stop gap to prevent trump from bleeding in the polls while he can still continue to say the democrats aren’t negotiating on the wall.