Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry doesn’t think the impending furlough of federal employees as a result of a government shutdown is a big deal for workers’ wallets.
Perry told Politico that because employees eventually get that pay returned to them, the effect was minimal.
“Who’s living that they’re not going to make it to the next paycheck?” Perry said when asked about the furlough’s effect on employees.
Then compared the shutdown to a private company, specifically like GM, closing.
“Why are government employees so sacrosanct? Private sector employees deal with this all the time… The government’s not immune to these things.”
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“Why are government employees so sacrosanct? Private sector employees deal with this all the time. … The government’s not immune to these things,” he said.
A study released last year by CareerBuilder showed that 78 percent of Americans lived paycheck to paycheck, more than in 2016, and 71 percent of working Americans said that they were in debt. A 2018 report from the Federal Reserve says that 4 in 10 adults couldn’t easily handle a $400 unexpected emergency expense.
