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(NewsNation) — Paychecks for thousands of national workers are successful the hands of the Senate, wherever lawmakers stay astatine a stalemate 23 days into the authorities shutdown.
Thursday's Senate absorption volition beryllium connected a ballot to wage certain national employees moving without a guaranteed paycheck, including aerial postulation controllers, national instrumentality enforcement and subject members.
"The slightest we tin bash is wage them. We're going to wage them anyway. We've got a instrumentality that provides backmost wage for workers, oregon radical adjacent furloughed," said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc. "So wherefore not bash the common-sense thing?"
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., told NewsNation helium and different Democrats volition proceed to propulsion an alternate measure that would unafraid wage for each workers.
"Ron Johnson's measure would accidental President Trump gets to wage national employees that the president decides to support connected the job, but not wage those that Donald Trump decides not to support connected the job," Van Hollen said.
In aboriginal October, President Donald Trump said immoderate national workers "really don’t merit to beryllium taken attraction of” aft the shutdown ends, pursuing an Axios study connected a White House memo that said federal workers aren’t guaranteed back pay for their mandated clip disconnected when furloughed.
Funding votes neglect aft Oregon legislator filibuster
A 12th circular of voting connected spending bills failed successful the Senate connected Wednesday aft decisions were delayed by a marathon code from Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who held the level for astir 23 hours.
During his filibuster, Merkley pushed backmost connected galore of Trump's policies since his instrumentality to bureau and said the United States is astatine its astir delicate signifier since the Civil War.
Senate Republicans slammed Merkley's code earlier it adjacent began, with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., pointing retired Capitol Police would not beryllium paid to enactment overnight during the code due to the fact that of the shutdown.
Who bash Americans blasted for the authorities shutdown?
New polling from Quinnipiac University recovered that 45% of registered voters described Republicans successful Congress arsenic much liable for the shutdown, portion 39% blamed Democrats.
Eleven percent of respondents said some parties deserved adjacent blame.
At 23 days, the shutdown is officially the second-longest successful U.S. past — and determination are fewer signs of it ending soon.
