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A Closing the government Expenses taxpayers $ 400 million every day to pay federal employees who do not work actively, for a total of 1.2 billion dollars. The United States, as of Friday, data on the budget department of Congress (CBO) published by Senator Johni Ernst, R-Iowa, according to estimates.
“Shenanigan Shenaniganov Schumer means that taxpayers will be a dick to pay another $ 400 million, to pay 750,000 non-essential bureaucrats so as not to work,” Ernst said in a commentary on Fox News Digital Friday.
“The political tricks of the democrats for the struggle for the health care taxpayer for illegal immigrants have officially officially became a billion dollars,” she added. “It should be enough for the left radicals. We must open the government and return Washington to work by serving veterans, families and hardworking Americans. ”
The law adopted in 2019 requires stubborn employees to receive Backpay after reaching an agreement on financing and closing. CBO found that the daily cost of compensation for employees is about $ 400 million, or on Friday is 1.2 billion dollars.
The office of Senator Yoni Ernst published data from the budget department of the congress showing that the closure of the government is expected to cost taxpayers $ 400 million a day to pay persistent federal employees. (Reuters)
“Using information from the plans in case of unforeseen circumstances of agencies and personnel management (OPM), CBO, according to estimates, within the framework of discretionary financing for 2026, about 750,000 employees can be condensed every day; The total daily cost of their compensation will be approximately $ 400 million, ” – a letter from the budget management of the Congress in ENMST Strated on Tuesday.
The data was published after the Republican from Aiova asked CBO to provide the decay of the cost of disconnection in September, since the deadline began.
CBO data were largely based on statistics from a five -stage partial disconnection from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019, during the first administration of Trump, the office noted in his letter to Ernst.
In the letter it was added that the number of thoughtful federal employees estimated at about 750,000 employees can vary depending on the day ”because some agencies can evaporate more employees, the longer shutdown is held, while others can recall some of the initially dropped employees.”
The government closed early in the morning on Wednesday after Senate Legislators could not reach a budget agreement. The lawmakers of the House of Representatives approved a short -term expansion of funding for the 2025 financial year in early September, which was aimed at financing the government until November 21.
The Trump administration and Republicans have since blamed the closure of the Democrats, claiming that they were looking for medical benefits financed by taxpayers for illegal immigrants. Democrats deny that they want to finance Health For illegal immigrants and instead, Republicans were accused of closing.
Fox News Digital turned to the Sumer office for comments on CBO and Ernst's comments, but did not immediately receive an answer.
White House The press secretary Kush Desai slapped the Democrats as “not serious people” when he was asked about CBO data on Friday morning.
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“Democrats burn $ 400 million a day to pay federal workers not to work because they want to spend $ 200 billion on free medical care of illegal foreigners,” said Desai Desai Fox News Digital. “These are not serious people.”
Trump repeatedly said that he did not want the shutdown to turn around, but on Tuesday noted that the clock is over, that some “good” may come from this.
It is expected that the administration is postponing federal employees in various agencies against the backdrop of a shutdown, when President Donald Trump gathered the Office and the budget Russell Vyuch, the center to display which departments and programs will focus on reduction. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
“A lot of good things can go down from the remains,” he told reporters. “We can get rid of many things that we did not want, and they will be democratic things. But they want open boundaries. They want men to play in women's sports. They want a transgender for everyone. They never stop. They do not learn. We won the landslide elections. ”
It is expected that the administration leads federal employees in various agencies against the background of disconnection, when on Thursday the head of the department and budget Trump Russell Weights Weight were outlined, which departments and programs will focus on reduction.
The press secretary of the White House Karolin Litt speaks with journalists near the western wing of the White House in Washington on October 2, 2025. (Kevin Lamarck/Reuters)
The press secretary of the White House Karolin Livitt told reporters on Thursday that “thousands” of employees would probably be dismissed.
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“Listen, probably it will be in thousands,” Livitt said. “This is a very good question. And this is the fact that the management and budget management and the entire team in the White House here, again, unfortunately, you need to work today. ”
