The White House on Tuesday warned that federal bureaucrats who have been forced not to work, due to the Democrat shutdown, are not guaranteed to receive back pay.
Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, said that Democrats are essentially shutting down the government over "Obamacare subsidies for the wealthy."
The Trump administration, led by Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russ Vought, has been working diligently to unravel the CFPB, a brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) oppose a Republican stop-gap bill as Congress edges towards a shutdown.
The Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Wednesday announced an investigation into how the jobs, inflation, and other data is collection by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).