while-federal-workers-go-without-pay-senior-trump-administration-officials-are-poised-get-raises

No elected official should get paid when some civil service (and sometimes our military) isn't. Period, end of story.

Everyone whether an appointee or other GS employee will still get their pay raises. This article was written with the intention of being slanted. While I was on active duty we had a 21 day shutdown.

This paragraph (from the article) seems to explain the situation:

"The raises appear to be an unintended consequence of the shutdown: When lawmakers failed to pass bills on Dec. 21 to fund multiple federal agencies, they allowed an existing pay freeze to lapse. The pay freeze for top federal executives was enacted by Congress in 2013 and renewed each year since then. The raises will occur because that cap will expire on Saturday without legislative action, allowing raises to kick in that have accumulated over those years but never took effect. The raises start with paychecks to be issued next week."