{"id":43052,"date":"2025-10-12T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43052"},"modified":"2025-10-12T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:25:16","slug":"just-to-make-it-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/10\/12\/just-to-make-it-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Just To Make It Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes, far behind am I on my reading. This <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/october-7-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">situation summary<\/a> by Professor Richardson was interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved. Marc Caputo of Axios broke the story of the new OMB memo this morning. Caputo pointed out that in 2019, during the last government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed a law designed to make it clear that furloughed workers would get paid. Caputo notes that the OMB\u2019s new reading of the law is \u201ca major departure from the administration\u2019s own guidance issued\u2026last month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two people familiar with the administration\u2019s plans told Jacob Bogage of the Washington Post that officials are hoping the memo will give the Republicans more leverage against Democrats in negotiations over the shutdown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suggest the Democrats make the dismissal of Mr Vought a key part of their negotiations. Nothing like pricking the skin of a self-important prick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes, far behind am I on my reading. This situation summary by Professor Richardson was interesting&#8230; The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved. Marc Caputo of Axios broke \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/10\/12\/just-to-make-it-clear\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43053,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43052\/revisions\/43053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}