Feds Working Without Pay are 'Volunteering' Out of Love For President Trump, Kudlow Says
Source: beltwaybreakfast.com
Out of Touch?
Published 59 mins ago on January 24, 2019
By Andrew Feinberg
WASHINGTON, January 24, 2019 The roughly half a million federal employees whove been working without a paycheck since December are doing so out of their presumed allegiance to President Trump, National Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow said Thursday.
Speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room, Kudlow was addressing remarks made Friday by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, in which the multi-millionaire suggested that furloughed federal workers who havent been paid for a month could take out loans instead of going to food banks to feed their families.
Asked whether Ross remarks indicated that the Trump administration is out of touch with everyday Americans needs, Kudlow replied: Am I out of touch? I dont think Im out of touch, Im addressing the problem. Ive met with my individual staff members, and God bless em, theyre working for free, theyre volunteering. But they do it because they believe government service is honorable and they believe in President Trump and theyre working as hard as ever.................
In a statement to BeltwayBreakfast, Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., suggested Kudlow and his colleagues in the Trump administration would benefit from meeting with some of the workers whove been deprived of paychecks for the past 34 days.
If Mr. Kudlow, Mr. Ross or literally anyone in this Administration would actually meet with federal workers and listen to their stories, theyd know how insulting these kinds of comments are, Warner said.
Read more: https://www.beltwaybreakfast.com/out-of-touch/2019/01/24/feds-working-without-pay-are-volunteering-out-of-love-for-president-trump-kudlow-says/
I would love for all of trumps aids and cabinet members to stand in the food lines and actually talk with the UNpaid "volunteer' Fed workers and their families.
Link to tweet
elleng
(131,006 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,438 posts)TeamPooka
(24,232 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)right?
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)their job and hoping this stupid fucken idiot gov. shutdown ends soon. FFS, the GOP should be banned from the planet by the intergalactic commission. Well, something like that.
C_U_L8R
(45,004 posts)And Trump will be polling in negative numbers. What bullshit.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)trickle down brain.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Hitler made the military change swearing allegiance to Germany
to swearing allegiance to Hiltler.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,516 posts)Hat tip, Joe.My.God:
January 24, 2019
BY JUSTIN WISE - 01/24/19 04:01 PM EST
President Trump's top economic advisor on Thursday said federal employees were "volunteering" to work amid the partial government shutdown in part because of their "allegiance to President Trump."
"They honor us and they do it because of their love for their country and the office of the presidency and presumably their allegiance to President Trump," National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said while speaking to reporters at the White House briefing room. "Theyre doing it. Give them some credit. There are a lot of wonderful people in this country."
Q: "That's not volunteering if you're being forced to work without pay. If you don't show up you lose your job. That's not volunteering "
Larry Kudlow: "I'm not even going to go there. You know what I'm saying. It's very clear..."
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Talking Points Memo reported that Kudlow made the statement after previously praising federal workers for "working for free" during the shutdown. At least 800,000 federal workers plus contractors are either furloughed or working for free.
"Theyre volunteering," Kudlow reportedly said. "But they do it because they believe government service is honorable and they believe in Trump and theyre working as hard as ever. ... A reporter replied by questioning Kudlow's take on volunteering, saying that it's "not volunteering if you're being forced to work without pay." ... Kudlow responded by accusing the journalist of trying to play a "semantic game."
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Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Also, how can these people be so stupid as to think these sorts of statements don't make them look like total assholes without a clue? I guess it doesn't matter since the Trump cultists will agree with anything they say or do.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)as long as it Owns the Libs.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)They're gaslighting the press, putting out their preferred justification.
They know that you know it's bullshit, but what are you gonna do?
Nothing. That's what I thought.
Hekate
(90,727 posts)The more they talk the more I want to barf.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)"The government employees have no money for bread."
"Let them take out loans to eat cake."
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)while all the federal employees find temporary alternative work.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)And the same goes for their supporters.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)These people (and I use that term loosely) are beyond disgusting
hibbing
(10,099 posts)aggiesal
(8,919 posts)Half-Million working for free because they support TRE45ON?
There are only 800,000 workers furloughed.
500,000 of 800,000 are working without pay.
Can you prove it?
Otherwise, I call Bull $hit on that number.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)because it does say on the form, your employer and how much you make, and you cannot falsify that form because that constitutes fraud......................and if you are laid off well it's kinda hard to get a loan......................so Wilbur the other enabling traitor says to suck it up also....................hey Wilbur you have meeting on the March 29th bring a lunch..................there are some Congressional elected Representative's want to know what you did in Cyprus....................did you by some chance give out application forms to fucking Russians Oligarchs ..................to see if they qualify for hiding money from state coffers while the country is like almost dead last on the economic scale for living............your as stupid as that libertarian asshole Kudlow ............
685 days to go...................
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20201103T00&msg=2020%20US%20Presidential%20Election
Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)PatSeg
(47,520 posts)Totally tone-deaf and clueless.
keithbvadu2
(36,835 posts)If 'volunteering', they would not have to be 'ordered'.
Put a bunch of them on tv saying how proud they are to be working without pay for Trump's Proud Shutdown.
keithbvadu2
(36,835 posts)WWJD? Car title loans instead of loaves and fishes.
A loan on your burro.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)total bull shit
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)the banksters WE know, want to. YEAH LARRY the media is demonizing fed. Workers for coming to work for nothing. You bet hot shot. GD it.
Larrys gaining weight. He and mitch get their beef the same place...tends to hang in their jowls.
James48
(4,437 posts)I'm NOT doing it "because I support the President"
Such an idea makes me vomit.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)The number of people affected by this immoral shutdown is vastly greater than the 800,000 figure they keep kicking around. It is also every family member of those impacted, all of the people with whom they normally conduct commerce, all of the networks that support these people too.
You don't reveal what you do (and that's ok), but I do wish that all FAA employees (Air Traffic Controllers) would walk off the job right now. That would bring this country to its knees in a New York minute. Air safety is NOT negotiable and right now, controllers are working ten-hours a day, six days a week to make up for the shortages. This is a situation ripe for catastrophe.
Take care.
Docreed2003
(16,866 posts)And they never get pushback, or public call outs, or any forced responsibility for their shit.
Simeon Salus
(1,144 posts)It's clear that even some in his base are starting to see he's not a man to love.
Most of us on this board saw him early on for the blathering con man he's since proved himself to be. What I still don't get is that the entire Republican party hasn't realized their 2016 primaries were also rigged in favor of this asshole. They don't seem to care THEY were also sold a bill of goods and they can't bring themselves to admit their mistake. Lemmings jumping off a cliff and dragging the innocent down with them maliciously.
Squinch
(50,957 posts)underpants
(182,843 posts)BTW - I was wondering what Marilyn Manson was up to these days.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Federal workers who live paycheck to paycheck, and Republicans gleefully rub it in.