Some workers still unpaid after shutdown, dread what's next

[mfcorey1]

Nearly two weeks after the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S history, many federal workers still have not received their back pay or have only gotten a fraction of what they are owed as government agencies struggle with payroll glitches and other delays.

And even as they scramble to catch up on unpaid bills and to repay unemployment benefits, the prospect of another shutdown looms next week.

"President Trump stood in the Rose Garden at the end of the shutdown and said, 'We will make sure that you guys are paid immediately.' ... And here it is, it's almost two weeks later," said Michael Walter, who works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture food safety inspection service in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and only got his paycheck Wednesday. He said two co-workers told him they still had received nothing.

The government has been short on details about how many people are still waiting to be paid.

Bradley Bishop, a spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget, said the Trump administration had taken "unprecedented steps to ensure federal employees impacted by the shutdown received back pay within a week."

"Much opposite of 'slow and chaotic,' an overwhelming majority of employees received their pay by Jan. 31," he said, though he didn't respond to questions about how many people still hadn't been paid.

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[Rebl2]

1. Wish the media

would go back to some of the folks they talked to during the shutdown to see if they have gotten their back pay. Once the shutdown was over I figured the msm would forget about these people and focus on the next disaster caused by this so called President.

[hedda_foil]

3. I have a feeling that's just what they'll do. Hope that feeling is correct.

[world wide wally]

2. He runs the government like it is one of his businesses

[justhanginon]

4. Straight into the ground and then bankruptcy. He's an idiot!