{"id":184247,"date":"2021-03-01T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=184247"},"modified":"2021-03-01T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:15:48","slug":"personal-bailout-for-bureaucrats-democrat-stimulus-pays-big-bucks-to-federal-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/personal-bailout-for-bureaucrats-democrat-stimulus-pays-big-bucks-to-federal-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Personal Bailout For Bureaucrats\u2019: Democrat Stimulus Pays Big Bucks To Federal Employees\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpersonal-bailout-for-bureaucrats-democrat-stimulus-pays-big-bucks-to-federal-employees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=184247&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pelosi-Gavel.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A provision buried in the COVID-19 relief bill has been criticized as \u201ca personal bailout for bureaucrats\u201d for carving out enhanced paid time off for federal employees, a boost not offered to non-federal employees.<\/p>\n<p>A provision in the \u201cAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 2021,\u201d which passed the House on Saturday, enables a new Treasury Department fund called the \u201cEmergency Federal Employee Leave Fund\u201d to pay federal employees up to $1,400 a week for 15 weeks as paid time off if they have any kids who are not enrolled in full-time, in-classroom instruction as their school. Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adamandrzejewski\/2021\/02\/23\/paid-to-stay-home--coronavirus-aid-bill-pays-federal-employees-with-kids-out-of-school-up-to-21k\/?sh=6093545e1223\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Under the bill as currently drafted, full-time federal employees can take up to 600 hours in paid leave until September 30, up to $35 an hour and $1,400 a week. That\u2019s 15 weeks for a 40-hour employee. Part-time and \u201cseasonal\u201d employees are eligible, too, with equivalent hours established by their agency.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCritics call it a personal bailout for bureaucrats,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adamandrzejewski\/2021\/02\/23\/paid-to-stay-home--coronavirus-aid-bill-pays-federal-employees-with-kids-out-of-school-up-to-21k\/?sh=6093545e1223\">said<\/a> Adam Andrzejewski, writing at Forbes. \u201cIt is funded through a new $570 million family leave account exclusively for federal workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile millions of parents struggle to work from home with kids who are enrolled in shuttered or partially shuttered schools, and millions more left the workforce or lost jobs to care for their at-home children, evidently parents in the federal bureaucracy need their own, personal Covid-19 bailout,\u201d he blasted.<\/p>\n<p>Andrzejewski noted that the provision was \u201cburied\u201d on page 305 of the House bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow. The BidenBucks bill pays federal employees up to 15 weeks of paid leave at $1400 per week if they have to stay home to virtual school kids,\u201d reacted writer Phil Kerpen, a lockdown critic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get $1400 once,\u201d he added. \u201cThey get it every week for 15 weeks. Swamp takes care of swamp.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow. The BidenBucks bill pays federal employees up to 15 weeks of paid leave at $1400 per week if they have to stay home to virtual school kids.<\/p>\n<p>You get $1400 once. They get it every week for 15 weeks. Swamp takes care of swamp.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4A7ktpm1Zc\">https:\/\/t.co\/4A7ktpm1Zc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kerpen\/status\/1364757616627503104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President Joe Biden has been criticized for his apprehension to stand up to teacher unions refusing to go back to work, while medical experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cdc-director-threat-of-suicide-drugs-flu-to-youth-far-greater-than-covid\">strongly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cdc-director-admits-its-not-just-science-that-affects-our-guidance-on-opening-schools\">advocate<\/a> for kids\u2019 return to in-classroom instruction.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, former President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-unloads-on-biden-he-has-sold-out-americas-children-to-teacher-unions?%3Futm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=fedup\">ripped<\/a> Biden for such apprehension while speaking at CPAC.<\/p>\n<p>Children \u201cmust get back and get back right now, right now,\u201d Trump urged, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-unloads-on-biden-he-has-sold-out-americas-children-to-teacher-unions?%3Futm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=fedup\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported. \u201cThe Biden administration is actually bragging about the classroom education they are providing to migrant children on the border while at the same time, millions of American children are having their futures destroyed by Joe Biden\u2019s anti-science school closures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no reason whatsoever why the vast majority of young Americans should not be back in school immediately,\u201d the president said. \u201cThe only reason that most parents do not have that choice is because Joe Biden sold out America\u2019s children to the teachers\u2019 unions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis position is morally inexcusable, you know that,\u201d Trump blasted. \u201cJoe Biden has shamefully betrayed America\u2019s youth, and he is cruelly keeping our children locked in their homes, no reason for it whatsoever, they want to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-unloads-on-biden-he-has-sold-out-americas-children-to-teacher-unions?%3Futm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=fedup\">Trump Unloads On Biden: He Has Sold Out America\u2019s Children To Teacher\u00a0Unions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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