Social Security employees are about to miss another payday due to the government shutdown. Commercial aviation is being affected by air traffic controllers and TSA employees calling in sick. The Trump Administration is threatening to not pay furloughed federal employees for the time during the shutdown.j
There are reports of localized problems at Social Security but nothing extensive. Everybody has their breaking point. The perfunctory email shown here won’t help much, if any. How close are we to major problems at Social Security?
Not very close. Most come to work eager to serve the public. Former COSS O'Malley wrongly predicted payments would be disrupted, but the agency has proven far more resilient. If they'd just reinstate telework, almost every problem could be solved by working longer hours at home.
ReplyDeleteWe are as close as Trump being 6’3 215.
ReplyDeleteI’m exhausted. Work all day and then DoorDash evenings and weekends so we have food on the table and the lights on.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, the Republicans got a wake up call after yesterday’s election results. If not… midterms are a year away and they will be looking for another line of work.
ReplyDeleteHopefully democrats thinking of voting for the GOP‘s supposed compromise also see the results and realize another bulls**t means-tested and short-term extension of the ACA subsidies isn’t good enough for Americans either
DeleteAndy is a good leader. He cares about his people and always advocates for them, even when it’s not the most expedient thing to do. Yes, he’s an appointee of an Administration that most readers of this blog do not support. But two things seemingly in conflict can be true at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThat email is a slap in the face. Like the email warning us what kind of help we can and cannot accept during the shutdown. Beeyatch please! This regime is a walking Hatch violation but by all means WE are the problem!
ReplyDeleteWhen you call Social Security now, when you get through finally, if you talk to the person at the DO they will tell you of the growing frustration of not being paid and having to deal with increasing numbers of fellow employees not coming in to work, calling in sick or whatever. I have also been told that all overtime has been cancelled, not a surprise, but particularly in the payment centers, this is the only way they have ever had to catch up with work. It is just getting worse.
ReplyDeleteThe end of the shutdown?
ReplyDeleteEntering its 36th day, the government shutdown is now the longest in American history, though senators predicted Tuesday that the impasse could end this week.
“I’m pretty confident,” said Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.
After weeks without any movement, bipartisan talks among rank-and-file members have been picking up, leading to the first public signs of optimism that the shutdown could soon end.
Mullin said that some Democrats had privately indicated last week that they were willing to vote for the short-term Republican spending bill that would reopen the government through Nov. 21. But, Mullin said, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had instructed them to wait until after Tuesday’s elections so they wouldn’t depress turnout from the liberal base that has been urging the party to hold the line. Schumer's office had no immediate comment.
Mullin, who regularly speaks with President Donald Trump, Democrats and his former House colleagues, said "there's a possibility" that the Senate could break the impasse and vote to reopen the government on Wednesday night, "but more than likely Thursday."
A funding bill would then need to pass the House and be signed into law by Trump to reopen the government.
Centrist Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, who has taken part in some of the bipartisan talks on how to get the government reopened, agreed with Mullin, repeatedly saying he’s “optimistic” the shutdown could end this week.