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Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Comey, Warren Falsely Claim Federal Workers Will Have No Paycheck This Holiday

Former FBI Director James Comey and Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren — among others — have taken to Twitter to complain that federal workers will go without pay through the holidays.

Their claims, however, came nearly a full day after the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released guidance to all cabinet agencies explaining how and when paychecks might be affected.

According to that guidance, the paycheck that most federal workers will receive between Dec. 28 and Jan. 3 covers the pay period from Dec. 9-22. The money to cover that pay period has already been appropriated by Congress and will be paid out as scheduled.

The only exception is in regard to those who worked on Dec. 22 after the shutdown began; they may see a paycheck that covers the rest of the pay period but does not include the hours worked on the 22nd.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Considering that the average Fed employee makes about $125K per year, I think that they will be just fine!

Anonymous said...

James Comey testified 3 years ago as being A political. He didn't care about politics only cared about the law.