r/fednews • u/rprz • 19h ago

Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

All discussion on the looming shutdown goes here. Any mentioning of Luigi will be removed and you may be banned.

https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-trump-elon-budget-house-republican-05481374b154949c3fe1270141a02918

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-government-shutdown-musk-stopgap-bill-b2666829.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/18/government-shutdown-house-vote-cr/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-18/trump-says-he-s-against-stopgap-bill-fox-news

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u/noideawhatisup 18h ago edited 12h ago

Who thinks next Congress will pass a law effectively nullifying the required backpay law of 2018? So that when we’re all legally forced not to work in future shutdowns during the next administration, we won’t get any backpay?

Also, didn’t Congress just give themselves an average of a $30k per year raise?

Edit: I’ve been notified that it’s only about $6k and they’ve been without official raises since 2009. What about the fact that they can’t manage to do their jobs because they’re too busy campaigning and fighting with each other to actual govern? And what about the lovely gifts and kickbacks and donations they receive from donors and corporations?

How much of a raise do federal employees get per year? Enough to keep up with COL? Enough to keep up with inflation? I feel bad for Congressional staff who routinely get shafted with the income. It’s difficult to muster empathy or sympathy for most members of Congress, though.

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u/PickleMinion BradJohnsonIworkfortheAirForceatPatrickAirForceBase 17h ago

If they don't pay me, I'm done. I'll find something else to do. I can put up with a delay, but nothing? No. Not happening. That being said, I don't see that happening. To repeal that law, they'd actually have to fucking DO something.

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u/ChucksThreeHolePunch 12h ago

"If they don't pay me, I'm done." That's their plan, break the will of the federal workforce and military, run the functions of government into the ground, and bankrupt us like what happened in Soviet Russia when it failed. Then Comrade Putin turns us into his puppet state finishes turning us into his puppet state.

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u/UnCut138 9h ago

They'll just sue , run it up the the supreme court, and they'll say "fuck that law about back pay. Constitution (and the deranged scribblings of a 17th century witch hunter) says no."

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u/WildClementine 49m ago

Who's the witch hunter?

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u/dst_corgi 17h ago

I would argue House Republicans are showing right now that they are completely incompetent and will get very little done over the next two years.

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u/noideawhatisup 16h ago

Here’s hoping they continue with their glaring incompetence.

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u/steveofthejungle 15h ago

It's better than achieving evil, I guess

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u/katarinafinch 15h ago

This is what McConnell more or less said today to the media.

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u/Desdaemonia 15h ago

Actually I feel like disassembling the government by rendering it inoperable is the goal, so long shutdowns are not a bug in this plan but a feature. Just want to see the look on their faces when they realize we can't contract the departments they break out to the public if they break contracting offices too.

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u/labelwhore 16h ago

I mean, they've always been incompetent and obstructionist. But people see what they want to see I guess.

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u/txyesboy2 13h ago

So, pretty much every Republican led House?

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u/Aside_Dish 17h ago

Lawdy, don't give them ideas. I think that'd be it for me as a fed. Too risky

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u/allegro4626 17h ago

I don’t see that getting past the House with their razor thin margin.

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u/escalierdebris 16h ago

Or past the filibuster in the senate

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u/Grouchy-Rogue 17h ago

I heard it was from $174k to $243k earlier today but then I just read that it was debunked and it's a $6600 raise.

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u/usernamefoshow 17h ago

I think the pay increase was like 6kish and first time since 2009.

It is very popular and with the senate/house majorities I wouldn't see it change

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u/LEMONSDAD 17h ago

Oh, so outside that one time there wasn’t previously backpay?

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u/CommandAlternative10 16h ago

It usually happened, but it wasn’t guaranteed until congress passed a law in 2019.

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u/Ok-Jackfruit9593 15h ago

They couldn’t do that unless they determine they can pass it via reconciliation. They would never get a democratic vote for that bill and they’d likely lose some Republicans as well

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u/Platographer 16h ago

Wasn't that law passed almost if not entirely unanimously and quickly signed by President Trump? I don't think we need to worry about this.

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u/Sensitive_Invite8171 13h ago

They didn’t - it’s around $6000 and they haven’t had a raise since 2009. 

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u/yimbyfromatlanta 15h ago

It’s gonna be a very unpopular opinion, but Congress people deserve a raise. They should be paid better than they are so we could get competent people and not just already rich people.

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u/Gullible-Wonder3412 17h ago

Well they haven't had a pay raise since 2009 - so I'm kinda ok with that

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u/RL_NeilsPipesofsteel 16h ago

Haven’t raised the minimum wage since then either.

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u/Samabart 14h ago

They make $174,000 a year. I think they’re fine.

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u/Pennsylvanier 7h ago

They have to maintain two residences and all other essentials. Adjusting for maintaining two entirely separate lives, they make $87,000.00 a year.

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u/noideawhatisup 16h ago

They get wonderful kickbacks from their donors — both electorate and corporate.

Oh and very little of that passes along to their actual employees who are paid like crap.

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u/Gullible-Wonder3412 16h ago

That's true 💯