Showing the same reasoning skills as a toddler under a blanket who thinks you can’t see them if they can’t see you, the Trump administration has decided that, if it just deletes references to laws, those laws will magically no longer apply.

There’s really no other way to explain the recent deletion of references to the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act—signed into law by President Donald Trump himself—mandating back pay for furloughed federal workers.

Yes, the Office of Management and Budget figured that, if it removed references to the law from its FAQ, then there would be no impediments to stiffing federal employees.

The Sept. 30 version of the guidance actually highlighted the law, saying that it meant that workers would be “paid retroactively as soon as possible after the

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