President Trump on Sunday advised Navy sailors to not “worry about” their paychecks which can be being held again by the present authorities shutdown.
“As your commander in chief, I will always stand for you. I promise you that,” Trump stated at a celebration of the Navy’s 250th anniversary. “You already know that, that is why you voted for me in numbers that no one’s ever seen earlier than. And I need you to know that regardless of the present Democrat-induced shutdown, we are going to get our service members each final penny.”
“Don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about it. Do not worry about it, it’s all coming,” the president added.
The federal authorities formally went right into a shutdown Wednesday within the wake of congressional leaders failing to come back to a deal on a stopgap spending invoice, leaving lawmakers struggling on methods to transfer ahead.
Federal staff, together with service members, have both been furloughed or are working with out pay till the shutdown ends. All will obtain again pay at that time.
A number of federal departments have put out messaging blaming Democrats for the shutdown, with a message on the Division of Well being and Human Providers’s (HHS) web site saying that “mission-critical activities of HHS will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown.”
Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday stated his chamber “did its job” within the latest authorities funding battle. Final month, the Home handed what Johnson described as a “clean” and “nonpartisan” stopgap spending invoice that might fund the federal government via late November.
“The House did its job,” Johnson stated in an look on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “The reason that House Republicans are home working in their districts, and I suspect House Democrats should be as well, is because we did that.”
“We passed a bipartisan, very clean continuing resolution a couple of weeks back now, and sent it to the Senate.”
The Senate returns to Washington on Monday and can vote once more on two funding payments that would reopen the federal government. Each failed twice final week.
