{"id":69479,"date":"2026-05-13T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/69479\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:23:08","slug":"schumer-pledges-to-support-bill-to-cut-pay-during-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/69479\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer pledges to support bill to cut pay during shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution introduced by Republican Sen. John Kennedy<\/a> (R-LA) after two government shutdowns in recent months left thousands of federal workers without paychecks.<\/p>\n

The most recent partial shutdown lasted 74 days and led more than 1,100 Transportation Security Administration employees to quit, disrupting travel nationwide.<\/p>\n

Schumer said Tuesday he planned to back the measure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to vote for it,\u201d Schumer said. \u201cAnd I think it has a lot of support.\u201d<\/p>\n

The resolution <\/a>would direct the Secretary of the Senate to withhold senators\u2019 pay during any lapse in funding for one or more federal agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see missing paychecks or empty dinner plates as leverage or bargaining chips,\u201d Kennedy said in a statement to Fox News Digital<\/a>. \u201cMy bills ensure Congress feels the same pain as the folks we\u2019re failing to pay \u2014 our troops, air traffic controllers, and federal workers. If we can\u2019t do our jobs and fund the government, we don\u2019t deserve a paycheck \u2014 plain and simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most senators currently earn <\/a>$174,000 annually, while top leadership positions, including the majority and minority leaders, receive $193,400 per year.<\/p>\n

With backing from both Schumer and Senate Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> (R-SD), who moved the measure forward earlier this week, the resolution is expected to pass.<\/p>\n

If approved, the policy would take effect after the 2026 midterm elections<\/a> and would apply only to members of the Senate.<\/p>\n

Republicans are currently racing through the budget reconciliation process to address lingering funding issues from the previous shutdown and secure funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol<\/a> for the next three-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n

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Thune argued Republicans turned to reconciliation because Democrats refused to support funding for those agencies, while expressing hope Kennedy\u2019s proposal could help deter future shutdowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if this \u2014 passing this and applying it to senators, maybe it will provide an additional incentive to prevent Senate Democrats in the future from shutting the government down again,\u201d Thune said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution introduced by Republican Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[504,477,1065,1080,1739,494,479],"class_list":{"0":"post-69479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chuck-schumer","8":"tag-chuck-schumer","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-government-shutdown","12":"tag-john-kennedy","13":"tag-senate","14":"tag-washington-d-c"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116567723743114521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}