S.24 - Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019
They passed it (once Biden got elected and came into office in Janaury 2021 and Democrats took control of the Senate) EXACTLY BECAUSE of this type of stupid ass nonsense that they are doing right now about "well we are not going to pay".
This obfuscation about "excepted" employees leaves out whole categories of such employees and should not only be referencing some of the mandatory-work/security types, but also those who are paid
from other sources of money LIKE USER FEES. In that case, their money wasn't "Budget Authority" but was in a separate pot, and its source is usually
regulated industry. And because that separate pot was there, most have actually continued to be paid for however long that fee money lasts during an appropriated funds lapse.
Those industry funds charged and deposited into the Treasury were provided as (the infamous business jargon) "fee for service".
THAT is why they got their hands whacked when they tried to lay off those under that category of funding when industry said -
"WTAF? 'We' PAID for those workers to review our (fill in the blank) application, etc.".
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