Speaker Johnson wants furloughed feds to receive back pay, but suggests they might not

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that national workers furloughed during the shutdown should person backmost pay, but helium besides raised the imaginable that those payments mightiness not beryllium forthcoming. “I anticipation that the furloughed workers person backmost pay, of course,” Johnson told reporters successful the Capitol. “We person immoderate bonzer Americans who service the…