mo4ch:>Trump attacks Pelosi & shutdown grinds on, but who’s actually getting paid? | Mo4ch News

President Trump attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for taking a paycheck during a government shutdown. But Pelosi is not the only lawmaker bringing home the cash while furloughed workers scrimp and save.“Why is Nancy Pelosi getting paid when people who are working are not?” Trump tweeted on Tuesday.The government has been partially shut down for over three weeks, during which around 400,000 federal workers have missed their first paycheck of 2019. Despite several rounds of negotiations, Trump and Congressional Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have failed to reach a compromise on Trump’s request for $5.7 billion to build a wall along the Mexican border.Among those going without pay are the 42,000 active duty members of the Coast Guard, who missed their mid-monthly paycheck on Tuesday, the first time in the nation’s history that a branch of the armed forces has gone unpaid. Over 20 government agencies have shut their doors, as have federally funded museums, national pa…