Congressional Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Condemn Trump’s Latest Federal Worker Threat

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Steven Horsford (NV-04), and Mark Pocan (WI-02) issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s threat to withhold back pay from furloughed federal employees:

“Donald Trump and Russell Vought’s threat to deny backpay to 750,000 furloughed federal workers is just another attempt to use these workers as pawns in their political games.

The law is clear: all federal employees furloughed during a government shutdown are owed backpay when the shutdown ends. Any attempt to withhold the pay to which these workers are entitled would be plainly illegal.

Instead of using workers as bargaining chips, Republicans need to come to the table for bipartisan negotiations to end this shutdown.”