re: #148 freetoken

I suspect most of the Secret Service is being paid, as essential employees.

Which of course raises the problem of what exactly are “essential” employees?

Also, as most of OPM are not essential, changes to employment are really slowed down, changes to health insurance are on hold regarding payments (OPM is putting up warnings that some may be billed directly by the insurance companies for the premium), etc.

So even the “essential” employees are going to get messed up sooner or later (it will be sooner.)

But the people who send out paychecks are “essential”. So there they are, mailing out hundreds of thousands of paychecks for $0.00.