I am not convinced 20 to 30 thousand essential DHS workers will show up for work without a pay check. They have transportation costs and meal costs. Heck they have to buy detergent to wash their uniforms. It is that they are required to work regardless of funding, but, the possibility they won't have money for travel and childcare is very real.
February 24, 2015
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee
The Department of Homeland Security (click here) (DHS) is due to “shut down” at midnight on Friday if Congress doesn’t find a way to pass a bill to fund the agency. But for the vast majority of the 243,000 agency workers deemed essential on the job, a “shutdown” would mean that they would have to continue to go back to work without paychecks.
At least 50,000 of the more than 55,600 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workforce, like airport passenger and baggage screener personnel, would be required to work without pay. Some TSA personnel are afraid that they might face the same financial and morale issues that they ran into during the October 2013 shutdown in which many federal employees went to work without pay, only to eventually receive their paychecks at a later date....
The TSA will have problems because of workers that are without enough monies to pay their work expenses. The airline industry will be out of luck because passengers aren't screened and/or flights have to be consolidated. This was the worst idea the Republican Congress ever came up with.
The concern about the President's Executive Order is in the courts, the Congress needs to move on. The President is appealing the activist decision in Texas. Appeals are real and state there are issues that are uncertain. The status quo is maintained in any case where there is an appeal. The Congress is taking the country hostage again and they don't believe in judicial order to fund DHS.
The President has already acted prudently while appealing the ruling. He has delayed the process of his Executive Order because of the Texas ruling. There is nothing standing in the way of funding DHS. If the President was insisting on the Order going forward there would be a legal debate, but, that is not the case. The Congress has no legal issue before them. This is all Republican politics and nothing short of it.
The average employee (click here) at United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) takes home $45K per year....
Theses folks aren't going to have a lot of financial residual to their needs and they will be forced to make choices.
The Department of Homeland Security if vast and the impact could ultimately cause an economic slowdown from an economy not completely recovered.
February 24, 2015
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee
The Department of Homeland Security (click here) (DHS) is due to “shut down” at midnight on Friday if Congress doesn’t find a way to pass a bill to fund the agency. But for the vast majority of the 243,000 agency workers deemed essential on the job, a “shutdown” would mean that they would have to continue to go back to work without paychecks.
At least 50,000 of the more than 55,600 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workforce, like airport passenger and baggage screener personnel, would be required to work without pay. Some TSA personnel are afraid that they might face the same financial and morale issues that they ran into during the October 2013 shutdown in which many federal employees went to work without pay, only to eventually receive their paychecks at a later date....
The TSA will have problems because of workers that are without enough monies to pay their work expenses. The airline industry will be out of luck because passengers aren't screened and/or flights have to be consolidated. This was the worst idea the Republican Congress ever came up with.
The concern about the President's Executive Order is in the courts, the Congress needs to move on. The President is appealing the activist decision in Texas. Appeals are real and state there are issues that are uncertain. The status quo is maintained in any case where there is an appeal. The Congress is taking the country hostage again and they don't believe in judicial order to fund DHS.
The President has already acted prudently while appealing the ruling. He has delayed the process of his Executive Order because of the Texas ruling. There is nothing standing in the way of funding DHS. If the President was insisting on the Order going forward there would be a legal debate, but, that is not the case. The Congress has no legal issue before them. This is all Republican politics and nothing short of it.
The average employee (click here) at United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) takes home $45K per year....
Theses folks aren't going to have a lot of financial residual to their needs and they will be forced to make choices.
The Department of Homeland Security if vast and the impact could ultimately cause an economic slowdown from an economy not completely recovered.
