“It’s really cruel to tell workers they’ll receive back pay once the government opens and then refuse to open the government,” said Senator Harry Reid on the Senate floor today. The Washington Post is reporting, that the US House has voted unanimously to give back pay to furloughed federal workers, it comes after Republican efforts…...
More than 85,000 IRS employees have been laid off during the ongoing partial shutdown of the United States Federal Government, leaving only about 9% of the workforce to do all the work. Don’t start celebrating yet, apparently the IRS can still extort hundreds of millions of people with less than 10% of it’s usual staffing…...