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Tell the GOP: Pay essential workers!
We demand you follow the law and provide backpay to the essential workers who are keeping our country running during this shutdown. Hardworking Americans shouldn’t be punished when politicians fail to do their jobs.
Republicans must come to the negotiating table, reverse their healthcare cuts, and end their reckless government shutdown.
Trump’s reckless shutdown is already hitting hardworking Americans – not the politicians in Washington, but the people who keep our country safe and running every day.
Air traffic controllers are working without pay. [1] Pollution inspectors are being told to look the other way. [2] Park rangers are locked out of the parks they protect. [3]
And now, President Trump [4] and Speaker Johnson [5] are threatening to illegally withhold their backpay. These workers didn’t cause this shutdown. But they’re the ones paying the price, and so are all of us.
Trump thinks that the more painful he makes his shutdown, the sooner Democrats in Congress will cave. But the American people won’t fall for his bait and switch. We know exactly who’s to blame – and we’re standing together to demand better.
Sign the Petition: Tell Trump and Republicans in Congress to pay the essential workers keeping us safe >>
[1] https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5542298-airport-controller-staffing-shortage-government-shutdown/
[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-a-shutdown-affects-the-epas-effort-to-protect-americas-air-water-and-land
[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0v4l897z2o
[4] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/07/trump-furloughed-federal-workers-backpay-shutdown/86566656007/
[5] https://www.newsweek.com/government-shutdown-furlough-federal-employees-back-pay-10841147