Posted on 12/12/2020 3:55:31 PM PST by Enlightened1
President Trump on Friday signed an order giving federal workers a paid day off work on Christmas Eve.
The news was a welcome surprise for workers who expected at most a half day.
Trump’s order says, “All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Thursday, December 24, 2020, the day before Christmas Day.”
Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton only gave half days when Christmas fell on a Friday, as it does this year.
Obama allowed a half day in 2015 and 2009, GovExec reported. Clinton also allowed a half day in 1998.
Trump has been a big advocate of celebrating the holiday proudly and maintained before taking office that politically correct Democrats were waging a “war on Christmas.”
At a Saturday rally in Georgia stumping for two Republican senators in runoff races, Trump warned that his political opponents still want to erase the holiday.
“Let me begin by wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. Remember the word?” Trump told the crowd. “Remember? We started five years ago, and I said, ‘You’re gonna be saying ‘Christmas’ again.’ We say it proudly again. Although they’ll be trying to take that word again out of the vocabulary.”
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Nice!
What a waste of taxpayer money. Haven’t most government workers been off all year, so-called working from home? They don’t need a paid day off.
When Kama-lama becomes POTUS, she’ll add a double...
Kwanzaa and Diwali
Friend of mine is a Federal employee. Their HR Dept at his agency sent out an email notice to all employees letting them know they were being given the 24th off - with no mention whatsoever of President Trump’s Executive order.
Agree with you for the most part. But I work DoD and will work this Christmas Eve because bad things happen and somebody has to be on the line. Deployed nine times and 6 of those were during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Didn’t get any time off there either.
Holiday pay and time and a half - tell the whole story...
I love that he did this. It’s symbolic, since most office people didn’t go to work on Christmas Eve anyway, or left really early, but this will help people with non-desk jobs who had to go to work.
Trump brought Christmas back to America. During the Obama years Christmas had become a four-letter word. Saying Happy Holidays was all but required (except for some mysterious reason Felix Navidad was okay).
Same status as George Floyd Day and BLM Day. About time./s
Oops, forgot those haven’t happened yet. Let the cat out of the bag.
Thank you for your service and Merry Christmas to you.
One of those Christmas’s was just in 2003 outside of Fallujah at the Marine EPW processing facility.
Merry Christmas to you also.
Trump gets BIG cheer at Army-Navy game:
What a waste of taxpayer money. Haven’t most government workers been off all year, so-called working from home? They don’t need a paid day off.
Don’t worry! While I’ll bet there are thousands of Government workers and the ACLU so upset that right now they are screaming “Separation of Church and State!” They will gladly work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!
This is a political move to elevate a CHRISTIAN holiday. Man people are dumb.
I worked every holiday at the Holiday Inn. Great money, easy work! Couldn’t get enough...triple time!
Very good Christian move.
It is called “sarcasm “. But confession is good for your soul!
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