{"id":1003344,"date":"2019-01-11T13:33:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003344"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:11:07","slug":"out-of-touch-white-house-says-workers-better-off-from-trump-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/out-of-touch-white-house-says-workers-better-off-from-trump-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT OF TOUCH: White House Says Workers \u2018Better Off\u2019 From Trump Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump and his White House are extremely out of touch with the workers whose paychecks they are holding hostage.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s top economic advisor said that in some sense workers are \u201cbetter off\u201d from the Trump Shutdown because they\u2019re basically taking vacation.<\/p>\n

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HASSETT<\/a>: \u201cWorkers are furloughed, and right now, it\u2019s about 25 percent of government workers are furloughed, which means that they are not allowed to go to work.\u00a0 But then, when the shutdown ends, they go back to work and they get their back pay. A huge share of government workers were going to take vacation days, say, between Christmas and New Year\u2019s. And then we have a shutdown, and so they can\u2019t go to work, and so then they have the vacation, but they don\u2019t have to use their vacation days.\u00a0 And then they come back, and then they get their back pay. Then they\u2019re \u2014 in some sense, they\u2019re better off.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump previously wrote off the workers hurt by his shutdown, suggesting that they weren\u2019t really in pain.<\/p>\n

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VICE<\/a>: \u201cPresident Donald Trump has a message for federal workers who once again won\u2019t receive their paychecks Friday: Some people have more pain than you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Talking Points Memo<\/a>: \u201cBut Trump was dismissive of government workers\u2019 struggles. \u2018You know who has more human pain? The parents of people who had children killed by illegal immigrants that should have never been in the country,\u2019 he shot back when asked about the human pain being caused by the shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vox<\/a>: \u201cAt one point, a reporter asked Trump about the \u2018human pain\u2019 being felt by federal government workers who are now missing paychecks because of the government shutdown. Trump used the question as an opportunity to suggest that undocumented immigrants are murderous criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump and his White House are extremely out of touch with the workers whose paychecks they are holding hostage.   Trump\u2019s top economic advisor said that in some sense workers are \u201cbetter off\u201d from the Trump Shutdown because they\u2019re basically taking vacation.   HASSETT: \u201cWorkers are furloughed, and right now, it\u2019s about 25 percent of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOUT OF TOUCH: White House Says Workers \u2018Better Off\u2019 From Trump Shutdown - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/out-of-touch-white-house-says-workers-better-off-from-trump-shutdown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-11T17:33:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:11:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/out-of-touch-white-house-says-workers-better-off-from-trump-shutdown\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/out-of-touch-white-house-says-workers-better-off-from-trump-shutdown\/\",\"name\":\"OUT OF TOUCH: White House Says Workers \u2018Better Off\u2019 From Trump Shutdown - 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