
Squabbling lawmakers made $20K each during longest government shutdown in history
“Maybe the Democrats would have been more reluctant to shut the government down for a political stunt if they were forced to live like Americans who couldn’t get food stamps, or had their flights cancelled, or didn’t get paid for their work in a federal agency,” Grogan, who oversaw domestic healthcare spending of $1.3 trillion in the last Trump administration, told the Post.
