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GOP Won't Vote for Back Pay

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Mitch McConnell; Chuck Grassley (Getty/Chip Somodevilla/Michael Reynolds)
GOP rejects bill to give back pay to federal contractors, wants to repeal estate tax instead
Republican senators want to repeal the estate tax on the wealthiest families — and stiff federal contractors

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IGOR DERYSH
JANUARY 29, 2019 10:05PM (UTC)
Not a single Republican senator has joined the effort to give back pay to hundreds of thousands of federal contractors who were unpaid during the partial government shutdown. But the party’s leaders are pushing ahead with a bill to repeal the federal estate tax on behalf of the wealthiest Americans.

Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith and Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, both Democrats, have introduced bills that would give back pay to federal contractors, who are not entitled under law to be paid after a shutdown as federal employees are, Vox reported

According to the Washington Post, the total number of federal contractors





https://www.salon.com/2019/01/29/go...ntractors-wants-to-repeal-estate-tax-instead/
 
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