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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReporter: Is it the WH's position that furloughed workers should be paid their back pay?
This was just a bit ago. What a horrible thing to say when it was Trump himself and Repugs who shut down the Fed Government!!
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Reporter: Is it the WHs position that furloughed workers should be paid their back pay?
Trump: It depends on who were talking about. We're going to take care of our people. There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of, and we'll take care of them in a different way
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Reporter: Is it the WH's position that furloughed workers should be paid their back pay? (Original Post)
riversedge
Oct 2025
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-misanthroptimist
(1,615 posts)1. Trump: Always a smaller-than-life individual
mercuryblues
(16,409 posts)2. He shouldn't be paid.
Well maybe in a different way...
riversedge
(80,803 posts)3. Trump doesn't remember he signed a bill 2019 protecting pay for workers affected by the shutdown.
Hickory
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Idiot Dumb Donny realDonaldTrump
doesnt remember he signed a bill 2019 protecting pay for workers affected by the shutdown. @GOP
#MAGA
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