White House raises shutdown pressure game, threatening no backpay for furloughed workers

The White House is wielding the caller menace of nary backpay for furloughed workers arsenic a maneuver to unit Democrats to extremity the week-long authorities shutdown. The erstwhile shutdown ended with legislation, known arsenic the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019, that required furloughed workers successful aboriginal shutdowns beryllium paid erstwhile the authorities is…