David Borer, the General Counsel of the American Federation of Government Employees, seems to disagree with Judd. Earlier today, Borer shared the following statements with Hill.TV:
“Yeah, he says that but members, many of them, are calling us saying, ‘I need to get paid.'”
Borer also stated that talks of border security will become futile if government workers are unable to pay their bills.
“You can debate border security all day long but you can’t do it with people locked out and not able to feed their families.”
The Government Shutdown
At the core of the government shutdown lies the impasse regarding border security. From a purely objective standpoint, President Trump and Democrat leaders maintain wholly different ideas of effective reform. The president believes that the border wall is the only solution; Democrats, however, have consistently denounced a physical barrier as wasteful and ineffective.
As the government shutdown lingers on, there are more and more reports of displeased federal workers. Many government employees are not happy about mandates which force them to work without compensation during the shutdown. Earlier this month, a select group of federal workers brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration; the lawsuit maintains that having to work without a paycheck violates the 13th Amendment.
