Let Them Eat Low-Interest Loans

The Trump administration insists that the government shutdown is not that big of a deal, and that it should continue until Congress appropriates billions of dollars for a physical barrier on the country’s southern border.

“People might have to pay a little bit of interest, but the idea that it’s paycheck or zero is not a really valid idea,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said , suggesting that furloughed workers take out loans and saying that he did not understand why federal workers were going to food banks. He went on: “If they never got their pay—which. “We’ll see a snapback right away,” he said.