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White House escalates shutdown consequences as Democrats show no signs of budging: ‘Kamikaze attack’

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3 weeks ago

The Trump administration is ramping up the consequences of a lingering government shutdown as a lapse in appropriations enters its eighth day, with no signs of ending soon. Now, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has floated plans reviewed by Fox News Digital that would not guarantee that federal workers currently furloughed from the shutdown would receive backpay — upending a 2019 law from Trump’s first administration in the aftermath of a 35-day shutdown.The threat of furloughed workers failing to receive backpay increases the stakes every day that Congress fails to pass...