Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180122:16:36:00
Treasury department, 50% of health and human services staff are expected to be sent home. remember, we got a flu crisis going on and almost 40% of the transportation department. that is just a sampling of the impact on the federal workforce. fda safety activities, the irs audits and refunds of the faa aircraft registry will be among the shuddered activities. if a furloughed employee does want to come to work, they're barred from doing so by law. back in 2013, 850,000 workers were affected. about 40% of the federal workforce and in 2013 those workers were awarded backpay. but there's no guarant...