While the Constitution demands that members of Congress never go without pay and federal law mandates that federal employees are eventually reimbursed with back pay, the same is not true for workers contracted by the federal government.
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Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
31 Oct. 2025
That same collective power, advocates say, is what this moment demands.
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