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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he does not understand why federal employees who are furloughed or have been working without pay during the partial government shutdown would need assistance from food banks.

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“Because, as I mentioned before, the obligations that they would undertake, say borrowing from a bank or a credit union are in effect federally guaranteed.”

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“Put it in perspective, you’re talking about 800,000 workers, and while I feel sorry for the individuals that have hardship cases, 800,000 workers if they never got their pay, which is not the case they will eventually get it, but if they never got it, you’re talking about a third of a percent on our GDP,” he said of the affected federal employees. “So, it’s not like it’s a gigantic number overall.”

  Roll Call

Ross has got to go.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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Sad to say I don't even know if that's a joke.  Because he does seem quite fond of velvet slippers.

Dear God, it's NOT a joke!

UPDATE:  There goes another one:




And...why is anyone asking for Lara Trump's statement?

President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump had this to say to the approximately 800,000 federal employees who aren’t being paid as the historic government shutdown is in its 33rd day:

“It’s not fair to you and we all get that, but this is so much bigger than any one person,” she told Bold TV on Monday when asked what she’d tell these workers.

“It is a little bit of pain, but it’s going to be for the future of our country, and their children and their grandchildren and generations after them will thank them for their sacrifice,” she said. “Right now, I know it’s hard. I know people have families, they have bills to pay, they have mortgages, they have rents that are due.”

She said that the president is “trying to come up with a good solution here,”

  Politico