A shocking White House memo circulating among staffers reveals that President Donald Trump plans to deny back pay to 750,000 furloughed federal workers as the government shutdown enters its second week.

The move would overturn a well-established policy implemented by Trump himself in 2019 when he signed legislation that made sure federal workers would receive retroactive pay for the time they were forced off the job by a government closure.

Axios first reported the existence of the memo on Tuesday.

“If that memo’s legit, it’s one of the dirtiest power plays the bureaucracy’s pulled in years. You’ve got unelected pencil pushers trying to override a law signed by the sitting president — the same law that guarantees every furloughed worker back pay after a shutdown,” X user Dan Brisbois fu

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