Congress is still getting paid during shutdown, but Rep. Jackie Speier is donating her salary

[applegrove]

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Filipa Ioannou at SF Gate

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The bulk of federal workers may not be getting paid during the government shutdown, but the same can't be said for the most visible employees of the federal government: The 538 members of Congress, who continue to collect paychecks as normal as the shutdown drags into its 21st day.

Congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-Calif., announced Friday that she'll be donating her salary for the duration of the shutdown in solidarity with those going without pay.

"Standing in solidarity with the more than 800,000 federal government employees furloughed or forced to work without pay and refusing my salary during the #TrumpShutdown," Speier wrote on Twitter late Friday morning. "I am donating my pay, as I have done during previous shutdowns."

SFGATE has reached out to Speier's office to find out where she plans to donate the money and will update when we hear back.


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[LisaM]

1. Congress didn't cause the shutdown!

It's nice that some better-off members can donate their salaries and.good for.them, but darn these headline writers who seem to imply Congress is responsible and its members.shouldn't be paid.

[applegrove]

2. I was hoping it would become a trend. Those GOP Senators need more

pressure put on them. And since they obviously don't care about others...

[grumpyduck]

3. If members of congress weren't getting paid,

the shutdown would be over by now.

[LisaM]

4. How so?

Pelosi doesn't want it. But she can't open the government on her own.

[applegrove]

5. Republicans love their net worth. They don't care about people living

check to check. But their relative wealth, some of it not relative but astounding wealth, they care about.

[grumpyduck]

6. She wouldn't have to open it on her own.

She would have lots of support from the Republicans. Heck, it might have even been their idea: "This is unnecessary and unconscionable... " Yadda yadda yadda.