He's just trying to prepare and say the orange turd is innocent and only being blackmailed.

Does this include ensuring the essential employees of the SSA continue to get paid during future shutdowns? Or do you just think they need to work harder ensuring everyone else still gets their checks while they line up at food banks after work since they're not getting paid?

Meanwhile thousands of essential fed employees are on day 34 of actually working and not getting paid. Unable to afford gas to get to work, unable to pay co-pays for medications, unable to pay their normal utility bills, eating into savings that could've been used for an emergency, piling late fees.

That article says "all senior professionals" so I'm guessing NBU.

What are you doing to help your constituents? You and the DE senators have constituents in crisis mode. You have constituents who are essential government employees who are still required to work but aren't being paid so can't pay for child care or gas to get to work. How are you helping them?!?

Eating gummy bears by the bag. Dollar store gummy bears though, not the good ones.

Omg kindred spirits I freaking love that song!

I'm all for holding the line, but what are you and other members of congress doing to help your civilian constituents that have to work without being paid? Plenty of "essential" feds soon won't be able to pay for the gas they need to get to the jobs they're still actually doing, unlike congress.

Knowing that this guy is hunting around in the ocean depths looking like a fed during a shutdown warms my chilled heart.
His name is Jeff.

I find this line to be especially infuriating: “Due to these efforts, we have improved service on the National 800 Number without adversely affecting service in the field offices.”