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politico.com - Schumer not moved by pleas from federal workers unionSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer brushed off calls Tuesday from the biggest federal workers’ union for Congress to end the shutdown and pass a “clean” continuing resolution.
“We can do both and we need to do both — have federal workers get paid in every way and negotiate a way to resolve Americans’ pain in the health care crisis,” the New York Democrat told reporters at his weekly press conference Tuesday afternoon, when asked whether the American Federal of Government Employees’ stance would change his party’s position.
Democrats are indeed publicly signaling they have no plans to adjust their posture, specifically that they won’t vote to reopen the government until Republicans come to the negotiating table to avert price hikes in Affordable Care Act premiums, which could come as soon as Nov. 1.
Schumer predicted that GOP lawmakers will be the ones under increased pressure in the coming days, as Republicans hear from constituents “aghast at their [health care] bills.”Federal workers are NOT getting paid. TSA and air traffic controllers are not getting paid, and that could have dangerous consequences.
This is an extremely shoddy way to treat our public servants.
Republicans can still get the blame for price hikes in Affordable Care Act premiums, even if the shutdown ends today. Though why they should when it's simply the expiration of a TEMPORARY measure put in place by Democrats without Republican support, I do not know.
