Speaker Johnson Says Furloughed Workers Should Get Back Pay

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A draft memo from the Office of Management and Budget suggests that Congress must allocate extra funding to pay the workers after the shutdown ends.

WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Oct. 8 that he expects that federal workers will receive back pay when the government reopens.

“It’s my understanding that the law is that they would be paid,” Johnson told reporters at a press conference on Capitol Hill.

“There is some other legal analysis that’s floating around. I have yet had time to dig into and read that, but it has always been the case. That is tradition and I think it is statutory law that federal employees be paid, and that’s my position. I think they should be.”

Johnson’s comments, made on the eighth day of the government shutdown, were in reference to an unpublished draft memo by Office of Management and Budget General Counsel Mark R. Paoletta to the agency’s director, Russ Vought.

The memo suggested that the furloughed workers are not automatically guaranteed back pay, despite language in the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act that seems to ensure they will be paid.

Congress needs to specifically appropriate back pay funding for those who stayed at home during the shutdown, Paoletta’s memo says. However, it also says employees who were required to show up for work are legally entitled to pay.

Johnson’s stance mirrors that of Sen. Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who said on Tuesday that he expects furloughed workers to be paid.

“I haven’t looked at the memo specifically yet. My assumption is that furloughed workers will get back pay,” Thune told reporters outside the Senate chambers.

“But that being said, this is very simple. Open up the government, and this is a non-issue. We don’t have to have this conversation.”

Senate Republicans and Democrats are gridlocked on government funding. The House of Representatives already passed a continuing resolution, or CR, that keeps spending levels static and would temporarily keep the government funded until Nov. 21.

By Stacy Robinson

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