President Trump announces temporary halt to shutdown

[arista]

https://news.sky.com/story/live-donald-trump-makes-government-shutdown-statement-11617705



[A temporary deal has been reached
The partial shutdown began on 22 December
It entered its 35th day on 25 January
800,000 workers have been without pay for almost two months
The deadlock stems from issues over funding for the US-Mexico border wall ]


Some progress

[Beso]

All employees will be paid back pay

[arista]

All employees will be paid back pay


Yes they need that

[Mystic Mock]

All employees will be paid back pay

What about front pay? Or side pay? Or Memphis Depay?

[puzzled]

There was no deal. He caved.

[The Slim Reaper]

All employees will be paid back pay

Not completely true. Government contractors won't be receiving any back pay.

[Beso]

Not completely true. Government contractors won't be receiving any back pay.

It would be nice to see a statutory payment made to these individuals..but this is America, they couldn't gI've everyone the same amount due to some probably contesting it in court saying their job was more important than the others....so, they can't guess how many hours each contract worker would have worked because they won't know when they would have been needed or used, so I think that is excusable.