President Trump on Thursday claimed that “most of the people not getting paid” in the partial government shutdown are Democrats, days after he contended that many federal workers support his call for more border wall funding. “Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border,” Trump said in the tweet. A nationally representative 2010 Gallup survey found that the political leanings of federal employees depended in part on whether they belonged to a union. Of the federal employees surveyed, 1,954 were members of a union while 6,607 were not. A recent CNN poll showed that 61 percent of respondents oppose building a border wall without any funding from Mexico.

Source: Washington Post December 27, 2018 13:52 UTC