01-13-2019, 11:28 AM
The third government shutdown of the Trump administration is now the longest in U.S. history.
800,000 federal employees and contractors are impacted by the ongoing shutdown Trump has directed in attempt to get $5.6 billion in 2019 for a border wall or barrier.
On Friday, federal employees received paychecks for $0 dollars. The federal employees will reportedly get back pay when the government re-opens, but that doesn't help them put food on the table now, or pay health-care costs due now, or pay the rent/mortgage due now, or avoid their credit ratings declining for missed payments.
In his latest narrative, Trump says the border wall will be indirectly paid for by Mexico via new NAFTA (USMCA). He and the administration have provided no details or responses to questions regarding that claim.
"That's a chapter you will NOT find in the new Agreement, simply because it does NOT exist #MexicoWontPay#factcheckingplease,” Kenneth Smith Ramos, who served as Mexico’s chief NAFTA negotiator under former President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
While the modernized NAFTA deal could potentially grow the economy and increase overall tax revenues, those would be paid by the increased output of U.S. companies and workers and not by the Mexican government.
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800,000 federal employees and contractors are impacted by the ongoing shutdown Trump has directed in attempt to get $5.6 billion in 2019 for a border wall or barrier.
On Friday, federal employees received paychecks for $0 dollars. The federal employees will reportedly get back pay when the government re-opens, but that doesn't help them put food on the table now, or pay health-care costs due now, or pay the rent/mortgage due now, or avoid their credit ratings declining for missed payments.
In his latest narrative, Trump says the border wall will be indirectly paid for by Mexico via new NAFTA (USMCA). He and the administration have provided no details or responses to questions regarding that claim.
"That's a chapter you will NOT find in the new Agreement, simply because it does NOT exist #MexicoWontPay#factcheckingplease,” Kenneth Smith Ramos, who served as Mexico’s chief NAFTA negotiator under former President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
While the modernized NAFTA deal could potentially grow the economy and increase overall tax revenues, those would be paid by the increased output of U.S. companies and workers and not by the Mexican government.
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