Obviously the Secret Service and other security personnel are considered essential and keep working, but what about the White House Chief Usher and the domestic staff that serves the First Family? Do they keep working, or is the First Family suddenly responsible for their own housekeeping, laundry, meals, etc.?
Generally speaking, White House staff would be exempt from the government shutdown. It may come down to a job by job decision.
But do they get paid?
Picturing the garbage piling up there… sink overflowing with dirty dishes… catbox on the way to becoming a Superfund site.
They would normally not get paid until the shutdown is resolved.
I’m pretty sure Trump is toilet trained.
Not during the time his brain was in Bill the Cat’s head.
I heard no one is better at using the toilet than Trump.
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Can we stop sucking Trump’s dick for once??? Left and right
“Ack!”
Vote for Bill and Opus. “This time, why not the worst?”
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I imagine the domestic staff are contractors, i.e. the government contracts a company which hires people to do the work. As I understand, there will be no payments on most contracts during the shutdown, but those people will keep working until the contract runs out of money. I don’t know if there are ways to pay for contractors who perform essential jobs.
The must be some process for paying for services deemed essential. The exception that comes to mind is the waver granted to provide access to the NFL playoffs for our troops. Basically someone had to get paid to keep the broadcast going, which I’m more than OK.
The President pays for some of the services at the White House. Those would obviously continue. And anything remotely related to safety would continue (for instance grounds keeping-can’t let those plants get out of control). I suspect the public tours will be canceled.
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I imagine the domestic staff are contractors, i.e. the government contracts a company which hires people to do the work./QUOTE]
I assume that extreme vetting is needed before anyone (even the janitorial staff) is allowed to work in the White House, so I really doubt the domestic staff are contractors.
And this is the case, nation-wide, for a variety of government services. Yes, there’s a shutdown, yes people can’t tour the Statue of Liberty today, but no, the arm isn’t going to fall off tomorrow. No we’re not going to halt payment to the US military, world-wide, and say, “Look guys, go ahead and engage in piracy or become mercenaries, wherever you happen to be, until Executive and Legislative branches become friends.” Although it would be supremely ironic if there’s a trash issue at the White House or the Rotunda, a shutdown doesn’t mean that.
There are routine processes for extreme vetting of contractors. Otherwise there wouldn’t be such a thing as a defense contractor.
In other words, stop paying for the piddly little cheap stuff because you can’t afford it, but keep on paying the big expensive stuff.
I thought one of the main hardships of the shutdown was that the military pay is deferred until the government opens back up.
Yep, military isn’t getting paid. Get off your ass congress and actually show that you support our troops instead of just saying the words.