The White House isn't impressed with pledges from Congress not to accept paychecks during a government shutdown.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has reportedly vowed to work without pay if a deal isn't reached to keep things running beyond this weekend. But Biden's Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young said that's nothing but theater.“That is theater. I will tell you, the guy who picks up the trash in my office won’t get a paycheck. That’s real.”
— OMB Director Shalanda Young, when asked about House Speaker McCarthy claiming he won't take a salary during the government shutdown and if Biden will do the same pic.twitter.com/qUFpeDlPfl“Look, I’m glad that the speaker has made that statement," she said during Friday's White House press briefing."By the way, members of Congress have to get paid constitutionally. So, maybe he’ll put it in a sock drawer, I don’t know. But they have to get paid during a shutdown.
Rep. Matt Gaetz has also requested the federal government halt his paycheck if the government shuts down and withhold payments until a spending deal is finalized in Congress. “It is my understanding that pursuant to the Constitution, members of Congress will continue to receive their pay during a lapse in appropriations,” he wrote in a letter to the chief administrative officer. “Therefore, I am requesting that in the case of a lapse of appropriations … my pay be withheld until legislation has taken effect to end such lapse in appropriations in its entirety.”
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