Federal workers who have been furloughed during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown are not guaranteed to receive back pay for their time spent out of work, a Trump administration official confirmed to The Epoch Times on Oct. 7.
The administration is preparing to argue that a federal law purportedly requiring the payment of back pay is not “self-executing” and would require Congress to specifically approve such funding in a new continuing resolution. The argument was made in a memorandum written by Mark Paoletta, general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, for that agency’s director, Russ Vought, and shared with The Epoch Times.
