After triggering a government shutdown to strip Americans of extended tax credits under the Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump‘s administration is now targeting the very federal workers caught in the crossfire.
In a move that reeks of political blackmail, Trump’s White House is reportedly preparing to deny back pay to hundreds of thousands of federal workers forced to go off work due to the government shutdown. According to a draft memo details obtained by Axios, the administration believes withholding pay could pressure Senate Democrats into backing the Republicans’ “clean” stopgap spending bill and ending the shutdown.
