Head Of TSA: Workers Will Be Partially Paid For Work During Shutdown
Jan 25, 2019, 8:43 AM | Updated: Jun 8, 2022, 5:16 pm
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The head of the Transportation Security Administration on Friday said employees who worked Dec. 23 – Jan 5. will be partially paid.
That news came as the government shutdown has cost the U.S. economy approximately $5.8 billion.– more than it would cost to build the border wall.
After Thursday’s failed votes in Congress, it appears Democrats and Republicans have a renewed will to reach a deal.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the administration wants to negotiate a government shutdown deal but is not saying how much President Donald Trump wants as a “down payment” on his long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Sanders spoke to reporters at the White House on Friday, a day after the Senate voted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the partial government shutdown. The shutdown is in its 35th day.
Trump on Thursday suggested he would support a deal with a “down payment” on a wall along the border. Sanders would not detail how much Trump is looking for.
Sanders says the Trump administration has made clear what it wants for border security, adding “we are going to work to get there one way or another.”
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called a wall immoral. Other Democrats have said they consider a wall an ineffective, wasteful monument to a Trump campaign promise.
