re: Where is the lump sum money due to federal employees going to come from

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Barely had enough money for gas to get to work.

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Poor planning on your part is not an emergency on our part. You know that every year come September 30th there could be a shutdown, you should have prepared better.

As a government employee you get monster benefits no one in the private sector gets at the cost of (potentially) lower pay and the fact that you may have a few deferred paychecks.

No one should feel sorry for government workers here.

The President was not authorized any funding by congress to pay this during shutdown, but we were still collecting taxes and sadly can still print extra money when needed.

I still think only those who actually still had to work during shut down with limited or no pay should be paid that back pay in the full. Anyone else should only be paid a partial amount.