It’s not hard to imagine how those in federal and state federal government can be so casual when it comes to their evolving time schedules as to when the nation will be fully open for business because it’s as simple as follow the money. They’re getting theirs thus there’s no sense of urgency, the “process” of politics can run it’s course because certain taxpayer-funded paychecks have been assured to come in uninterrupted.

United States Congressman and Senator weekly salary: $3,346 (assured through 9/21)
Average federal employee weekly salary: $1,730
Average state employee weekly salary varies: (highest) Washington, D.C $2,222,
….Maryland $2,086, Virginia $1,967
Former president lifelong pension benefit weekly: $4,051
Congressional lifelong pension benefit weekly: $2,676

Here’s how the elected have been financially weathering the shutdown while the American people have to live with their edicts….

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R) weekly salary: $2,848
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) weekly salary: $3,878
Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) weekly salary: $1,730
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (D) forgoes his weekly $2,884 salary
Delaware Governor John Carney Jr. (D) weekly salary: $3,288
Hawaii Governor David Ige (D) weekly salary: $3,051
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) forgoes his $3,411 weekly salary
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) weekly salary: N/A
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D) weekly salary: $2,500
Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) Weekly salary: $1,346
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) weekly salary: $3,269
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R) weekly salary: $3,557
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) weekly salary: $3,063
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) weekly salary: $2,454
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak (D) pledged to donate his $2,876 weekly salary
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) weekly salary: $3,365
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) weekly salary: $3,846
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) weekly salary: $2,775
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) weekly salary: $2,954
Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) weekly salary: $1,896
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (D) weekly salary: $3,747
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo (D) weekly salary: $2,802
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) weekly salary: $2,956
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) weekly salary: $3,365
Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D) weekly salary: $3,520
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) weekly salary: $2,937

Everyday life gets even harder to endure at the mayoral level….

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) weekly salary: $4,975
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) weekly salary: $4,771
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) weekly salary: $4,157
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) weekly salary: $3,846
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (D) weekly salary: $3,365
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock (D) weekly salary: $3,292
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) weekly salary: $2,833

Remember this when the political class drags this process out to collect more COVID-19 “data”, fat-and-comfortable government employees go on social media and tell those who fund their incoming paychecks to shut up and stay home, humble yourself and visit a food bank, decline to pay your rent and bills, never leave home (and if you must risk killing us all, not without a mask), and succumb to your movements being tracked and stored.

It must be nice.

NOTE — We’re not including self-centered celebrities because they don’t have the power over us they believe they have.

Not like a $120 million revenue shortfall would stop a government body from trying to force taxpayers to pay more to support liberal nonprofits that aid illegal aliens….

Dozens signed up to speak and seats were hard to find at a hearing on Tuesday night for a plan to set aside $373,000 in legal aid money for low income Montgomery County immigrants facing deportation. Claudia Cubas with the CAIR Coalition described the people she sees in detention centers where immigrants facing deportation proceedings are held.

No vote has been scheduled on the plan yet, but County Council President Hans Reimer said a date would be set soon.
— WTOP, 5/2/18

Liberal Democrats speaking appeared to have trouble accepting the concept of “illegal” being “criminal”.

Only adding to the drama at the May 1st public hearing was Reimer’s astonishing statement, “Being undocumented is not a crime. That is not a criminal violation.” Then again, coming from an Obama administration refugee that managed to continue to leech off the taxpayer for his livelihood, that was not all that surprising.

Before serving on the County Council, Hans established a record as an innovator in political engagement. He served as National Youth Vote Director for the historic Obama for America campaign in 2007, and previously as political director for Rock the Vote, where he helped register nearly a million voters. Hans also served as a senior advisor at AARP and, since his earliest work in Washington, has been a national leader on protecting Social Security from Republican efforts to privatize the program.
— Montgomery County website

Given the sensitive nature and visceral response the illegal immigration invokes, granting the public an opportunity to give their input on diverting public money to defend “low income” illegals against deportation could be a political ploy to shield a coming decision to divert money to liberal nonprofits like the “Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition” and Indivisible in the name of “civil rights”.

WE KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER by working with and for the immigrant men, women, and children facing detention and deportation. Our services include legal representation, educational outreach, impact and advocacy work, and the training of attorneys who defend immigrants in the immigration and criminal justice arenas.

They just need money to pay their salaries.

Against the wishes of many of their residents, Montgomery County is a self-declared “sanctuary jurisdiction” currently at odds with the Trump Administration’s stance against illegal immigrants.

Council President Hans Riemer was arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol by U.S. Capitol Police yesterday, after refusing an order to disperse following an immigration rally. “I was arrested today,” Riemer wrote on Facebook last evening. Riemer has promised to introduce legislation to declare Montgomery County officially a “sanctuary county” for illegal immigrants, according to Gustavo Torres, Executive Director of CASA de Maryland.
— Rockville Nights, 12/7/17

Using taxpayer money to defend those who should never have been in the United States in the first place is a blatant middle finger to the President and those who voted him into office to redress an issue that negatively affects all too many Americans on a daily basis.