Last week Representative Elissa Slotkin, the Democrat representing Michigan’s 8th district in the U.S. congress, asked that her pay be withheld until the government reopened. This week Rep. Tim Walberg jumped on that bandwagon, writing a letter to a congressional budget administrator asking that his salary be withheld until the government shutdown has been resolved. Members of congress are allowed to continue to receive their salaries during government shutdowns, even as thousands of federal workers are furloughed or remain on the job without pay. Walberg, who represents Jackson, Eaton and Hillsdale Counties in the U.S. House of Representatives, announced his decision Wednesday on Twitter writing: “Until the partial shutdown is resolved and the government reopened, I’ve asked that my pay be withheld.”
