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The Hill reports:
President Trump’s top economic advisor on Thursday said federal employees were “volunteering” to work amid the partial government shutdown in part because of their “allegiance to President Trump.”
“They honor us and they do it because of their love for their country and the office of the presidency and presumably their allegiance to President Trump,” National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said while speaking to reporters at the White House briefing room.
Talking Points Memo reports:
Earlier in the White House briefing room, responding to a reporter’s question, Kudlow said of unpaid federal workers: “God bless them. They’re working for free. They’re volunteering. But they do it because they believe government service is honorable and they believe in President Trump and they’re working as hard as ever.”
Q: “That’s not volunteering if you’re being forced to work without pay. If you don’t show up you lose your job. That’s not volunteering…”
Larry Kudlow: “I’m not even going to go there. You know what I’m saying. It’s very clear…” pic.twitter.com/w1CNOmafBZ
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 24, 2019
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— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 24, 2019
“God bless them — they’re working for free…because they believe government service is honorable and they believe in President Trump,” White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow said, adding that he’s not out of touch with the hardships unpaid staffers are facing pic.twitter.com/N9qfrH8ML3
— POLITICO (@politico) January 24, 2019