Republican senator says back pay for federal workers is ‘not up to the president’

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said connected Tuesday that the president does not get to determine whether furloughed national workers are entitled to backmost pay. “It’s not up to the president,” Kennedy told reporters, erstwhile asked astatine the Capitol astir the Trump medication “not needfully committing to backmost pay” for the national workers. “I mean, his…