Shamelessly as Obama ordered vets to be blocked from the World War II Memorial and threatened military chaplains for holding services during the “shutdown.” Yet, President Obama gave union organizers a waiver to do their organizing during the shutdown and get their federal paychecks.
“On Friday OPM issued updated guidance that provides several carefully crafted carve-outs for furloughed government workers to perform union work on official, paid time.”
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This means, for example, these so-called “official time” federal employees could be very politically active in the ongoing Virginia elections and get paid by the federal government for their efforts on McAuliffe’s behalf. There is no limitation on what federal employees do during “official time” because they aren’t working for the American public, they are working for the union and taxpayers are picking up the bill.