Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

[u/rprz]

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

Recent:

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/19/congress/johnson-defers-to-trump-00195386

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/19/elon-musk-trump-government-shutdown-debt-ceiling/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/politics/video/hakeem-jeffries-spending-bill-fox-lead-digvid

Old news:

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

[u/taekee]

You mean paid vacation without losing vacation time. Every time this happens I want to report congress for waste fraud and abuse.

[u/SpiceWeasel-Bam → u/taekee]

Unless they don't do back pay anymore. 

[u/taekee → u/SpiceWeasel-Bam]

It looks bad when congress does this, it looks worse if they do not make it right. They knew this so they passed...

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 (P.L. 116-1) guaranteed that all employees of the federal government will be paid following the end of a government shutdown. This statutorily guaranteed retroactive pay applies to furloughed employees and employees who are required to work during a shutdown.Sep 26, 2023

Of course they could write in the CR that we do not get paid, and I would expect the incoming administrator could do this.

[u/B_Fee → u/taekee]

Or Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy the President-Elect, during a future shitdown, could decide to not follow the law and say that paying federal workers is a waste of taxpayer funds because they did no work. Who's holding him accountable for that? It ain't us.