Trump Says Back Pay For Federal Workers ‘Depends On Who We’re Talking About’

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The White House is pressuring federal workers as it pushes Democrats to back a GOP funding plan. A new OMB memo questions back pay for furloughed staff, with Trump saying some “don’t deserve” it, deepening the week-long shutdown standoff.

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00:02The White House intensified pressure on federal employees Tuesday as it sought to win Democratic

00:06support for a short-term GOP spending plan to end the government shutdown, and according

00:11to the Wall Street Journal.

00:12Memo from the Office of Management and Budget argued the administration isn't required

00:16to pay furlough workers under the 2019 back pay law.

00:20President Trump suggested in a press conference that back pay depends on who we're talking

00:23about, saying some people don't deserve to be taken care of.

00:26The standoff, now on its seventh day, has left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid,

00:30as GOP leaders bet that missed paychecks will pressure Democrats to agree to their seven-week

00:35funding bill.

00:36Memo drew sharp criticism from Democrats, who called the interpretation absurd, said it

00:40violates established shutdown guidance from the Office of Personnel Management.

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