Shutdown pay raise

This isn’t going to look good. And it certainly isn’t good. Joan McCarter of Daily Kos summarizes a Washington Post article about an aspect of the government shutdown now at the end of its second week:

While 800,000 federal employees and thousands of people working for the government under contract are going without paychecks, administration folks are getting $10,000 raises.

On January 5, these administrators—cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, administrators—get these pay bumps, ironically, because of the shutdown. The funding bills for the multiple agencies, which former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan refused to bring to the floor, included a pay freeze first enacted in 2013 and renewed every year. When those bills died, so did the pay freeze. So not only do these guys get raises, they get five years' worth of raises starting with the paychecks they get next week.

Do you think any of them will turn down the raise?