WH employees ain't gettin paid, either

[UTUSN]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/white-house-government-shutdown.html

At White House, Empty Desks and Unpaid Bills as Trump Shows No Sign of Relenting

.... And the Secret Service agents Mr. Trump was so impressed with, down to the officers who check IDs and wave black SUVs in and out of the gates surrounding the complex, are all working unpaid — everyone in the Secret Service is, according to an official at the agency. ....

But some of the president’s furloughed aides are among those who are not able to communicate with others using work phones or email, or seek outside income, rules that have spanned administrations. ... ....

Federal employees are counting on getting back their lost pay at some point, but contracted workers could face a different outcome. A spokeswoman for the General Services Administration said that facility managers — considered federal employees — and many contracted janitors and maintenance workers in some offices are still working, but was not able to say whether the contractors would eventually receive their pay. ....

On Thursday, as the most recent shutdown approached the 21-day mark, Mr. Trump was grudgingly coaxed from the White House. He took a handful of people still working in the White House with him aboard Air Force One to Texas, where he met with border security officials and people whose lives had been affected by the scourge of illegal immigration, not a nagging shutdown.

At least seven senior aides were aboard the flight, including Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser; Sarah Huckabee Sanders, his press secretary; Bill Shine, his deputy chief of staff for communications; Mick Mulvaney, his acting chief of staff; and Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser and architect of the administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies. ....

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[klook]

1. When's his phone bill due?

Sure would be a shame if his Twitter machine got cut off.

[UTUSN]

2. And he's sure to have a relationship with the lowly employees who might ask for pay

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Good point! That would be an unintended benefit...

[BigmanPigman]

4. I wish all of the Secret Service would call in sick.

Watch your back fucking moron, there are a lot of people who are not fans of yours right now.

[babylonsister]

5. Who's paying for those 17 new lawyers, I wonder. nt

[EarthFirst]

9. Probably some LLC Giuliani has set up to shield transparency. nt

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Maybe they should supplement their non-pay with a tell-all book.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. C'mon, Trump wouldn't fail to pay contractors would he? nt

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Regarding Secret Service . . . . . anyone else notice that POTUS hasn't left the WH

to hang at one of his clubs for about a month now? You don't think he's dying (no pun intended) to go to Mar-A-Lago and get out of DC, grey and raining, and have a nice long week-end of golfing in his shorts? He is.

But while SS is still on the job, his paranoid way of regarding the world is they won't step in front of a bullet for him if circumstances demanded and he's not about to hire private security.

Shutdown = Unintended Circumstances.