It seems obscene that the very people who are responsible for the government shutdown should be about the only ones on the federal payroll getting their checks, but here we are.
It’s the law, you see. And that’s what the Oklahoma contingent will tell you when you ask if they’re getting their exhorbitant salaries while hundreds of thousands of others are are about to pass through a second pay period without a dime.

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