Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said yesterday that all federal employees should receive back pay they missed during the 35-day government shutdown by the end of the week, The Hill reported. Mulvaney said that the timing depends on which payroll provider their agency uses. "Some of them could be early this week, some of them may be later this week," he said. "But we hope that by the end of this week all of the back pay will be made up, and of course the next payroll will go out on time." He did not elaborate on whether federal contractors who went unpaid during the shutdown will receive compensation for their work, saying that it will "depend on the contract." Roughly 800,000 federal employees were furloughed or required to work without pay during the partial government shutdown that ended Friday after 35 days. Most workers missed two paychecks during that period.
