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one of the president donald trumpTop economic advisers on Friday urged federal workers who will be deprived of pay checks ongoing government shutdown He sought guidance from his superiors on how to obtain loans and other assistance, which he claimed was available to him.
Director of National Economic Council Kevin Hassett He told reporters at the White House that he and other administration officials “really feel” for the 750,000 federal civil servants who are not getting paid. This is because The Republican-controlled House and Senate have failed to pass legislation to fund the government in 24 days Since the end of the last fiscal year, agencies have been forced to furlough all but the most essential workers and force those still employed to work without pay.
“We would urge people to call their supervisors, because there are things available, such as zero interest credit loans for people in this situation,” Hassett said.
He claimed the ongoing shutdown situation is “really not acceptable to us” and blamed Senate Democrats — who do not have a majority in the upper chamber — for refusing to vote for a GOP-written stopgap bill to fund the government until mid-November.
The three-week long standoff stems from this Republicans refuse to consider increasing the health insurance tax credit. That has kept premiums at affordable rates for millions of Americans. Without such an expansion, insurers have signaled plans to raise rates to double or triple last year’s rates for those using the Affordable Care Act exchange marketplaces to buy coverage.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has kept the House out of session since last month to pressure senators to accept a House-passed stopgap bill and prevent a potentially embarrassing vote on releasing Justice Department files on deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Because Senate rules require a 60-vote majority to advance most legislation, Democrats have refused to lend their support to a GOP bill without provisions to expand the health insurance tax credit at issue.
Most public polling in recent weeks shows that more Americans blame Republicans for the funding impasse than Democrats, but Hassett claimed the situation is entirely in the hands of the Democratic Party.
He said, “The fact is that the Democrats in the Senate are no longer a liberal force in this country. They are not performing their constitutional duty to be a liberal force. And the people who have been furloughed are not being paid right now.”