• TSA workers can expect a paycheck this week as their boss gives them a bonus
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/tsa-workers-can-expect-a-paycheck-this-week-as-their-boss-gives-them-a-bonus/2019/01/12/bea98046-1689-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html?utm_term=.c77ae67855a8 as usual if you can't access wapo just enable cognito mode
Are they allowed to spend it though?
ugh the administration trying to shuffle around moneys instead of dealing with the democrats is going to have ramifications.
Wonder if a congressman is going to try to commit PR suicide attacking this.
It means Trump's losing the shutdown fight, even if he's refusing to concede right now. He started this fire and now he (by way of TSA Administrator Pekoske, in some way a subordinate of the President) is having to try and keep the fire from burning unintended victims. The White House having to go to extra effort to mitigate the damage it's directly causing means they're in a very weak position and it's only going to get worse every day the shutdown continues.
is trump not aware of how airport workers are being heavily affected by the shutdown? isn't he supposed to be a fan of security at airports? has he not talked about this
This is one of the main criticisms of the shutdown, and one that he will likely never touch until he's certain he can spin it against the Democrats. I'm half-expecting him to be aware of this, and him hoping that a terrorist attack happens so he has more ammo for his very large-brained policies.
When the businessmen who are rich enough to preboard and get first class but not enough to have their own private jet are forced into the regular security line, things will start to sting
If I was a TSA worker during this shutdown and fucking CS_Leet.mdl wearing a cartoon fizzling-fused bomb vest started walking toward the metal detector screaming Jihad, I'd just nip off for a cheeky piss.
Uh no because people don't enter the country through airports they cross the borDER!!? Airport security doesn't matter, it's all about securing the border and airports aren't borders we all know that.
Illegal border crossings in the south are at a 40 year low. 7 of the 4000 Terrorist Watch List detainees came in through the southern border while the rest came in by plane through the airports. So we need security, and what better way to do that, then directly cripple the security in the places that actually matter What an idiot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAuooUf5G6I
"If we build a wall we won't need security at the airports, America will be safe again"
Just let it work next week. My cousin is visiting from El Salvador and he came before the shutdown happened. If the airports are shutdown, he'll be stuck here and miss his first day of classes
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the partial government shutdown became indefinite, as a way of gutting federal departments which Trump doesn’t like. Eg we’ve already seen Trump offer pay raises to employees in defence (one of the few areas of federal government which American conservatives actually support), but pay freezes for employees in other departments. Here we can see pay being restored to just the TSA employees, another one of those aforementioned areas, but those 32 federal employees in the other thread who were accidentally paid were told not to spend that money. And as for the matter of national parks, I believe there have been volunteer groups who have been cleaning up some of the parks? What if Trump wanted that to become a permanent arrangement?
The Senate can override Trump's veto and bluntly force him to sign (or refuse to sign and allow to pass into law automatically by timeout if he wants to be a king baby) budget appropriations bills to fund and reopen the government. McConnell is just being a useless enabler and refuses to table a vote on the same appropriations bill he agreed to table and saw win Senate passage just a few weeks ago -- the bill Trump abruptly 180'd on and vetoed, causing the shutdown. The Senate is able to override his control of the Senate business and force a vote on the bill, but the threshold is high and things haven't gotten so bad that a majority of Senate Republicans would openly rebel against McConnell. Trump won't back down from his demands that Congress give his wall $5.7 billion (or more by the time they were to actually approve such a bill, if they caved), and House Dems have no reason to talk him off the ledge he's put himself on so they're just waiting for him to cave. The Senate is sitting in the middle twiddling their thumbs because McConnell is refusing to allow any bill Trump won't sign (meaning anything but total capitulation to his wall funding demands -- which can't possibly pass the House on bill reconciliation) from being even considered, because to veto override Trump would be to humiliate and betray the narcissistic fuck. TL;DR the shutdown is because Trump's throwing a giant tantrum and holding hundreds of thousands of federal employees hostage. He's not smart enough to have an ulterior motive -- but those who whisper in his ear might.
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