A Utah representative asked the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 21, to withhold his pay until the partial government shutdown is over.
Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah) took to Twitter to make his request, saying that “Congress must be held accountable” for the partial shutdown over border security.
He added that “if we can’t do our job, we shouldn’t get paid.”
The partial shutdown, which has entered its third day, has impacted 25 percent of the government and 15 percent of the federal workforce, officials said. More than 420,000 government employees would be working without pay and over 380,000 would be furloughed, according to the projection by Senate Appropriations Committee staff.
He also added that federal paychecks would go out Dec. 28, and only their future pay period, scheduled on Jan. 11, would be affected.
“It’s very possible this shutdown will go beyond the 28th and into the new Congress,” Mulvaney said.
Trump Will Not Back Down on Wall
The president canceled plans for a scheduled Christmas vacation in Florida and are staying in Washington D.C. because of the partial government shutdown, according to a tweet on Dec. 22. Trump previously said he would stay in the nation’s capital if Congress couldn’t reach a solution. First Lady Melania Trump, who had already left for Florida, will also return to Washington.In a series of posts during the shutdown, Trump continued to appeal for the border wall.
“The most important way to stop gangs, drugs, human trafficking, and massive crime is at our Southern Border. We need Border Security, and as EVERYONE knows, you can’t have Border Security without a Wall,” Trump wrote on Dec. 23.
He added that he was waiting for “the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed border security” in another tweet on Dec. 24.
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