In a Facebook update on Congressman Beto O’Rourke’s page today, he vowed to donate all of his pay during the government shutdown to a veterans organization in El Paso, but he’s not stopping there.
The US government is quickly running up on a budget deadline, and if the Democrat and Republican lawmakers can't come to some sort compromise, things are going to get ugly for a lot of federal employees. KFOX-TV even spoke to the wife of Fort Bliss soldier who said she's worried about how bills are going to get paid if soldier's paychecks are held up.