'This is a lie': James Comey gets FACT CHECKED over shutdown payroll

Fired FBI Director James Comey took to Twitter today and said “FBI families will spend Christmas without a paycheck” thanks to the government shutdown:

FBI families will spend Christmas without a paycheck. This president promised Mexico would pay for the wall but innocent people are now paying the price for another lie. Our thoughts are with hardworking public servants and their families.

— James Comey (@Comey) December 23, 2018

And he was quickly fact-checked over this false statement:

Per OMB guidance, checks for Pay Period 26 (December 9-22) will be processed as usual. Which means federal employees will get their normal direct deposit between December 28 and January 3.

It's the paychecks *after* that, starting with Pay Period 1, that are stopped. https://t.co/RT1wroDWWr

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 23, 2018

Payrolls … how do they work?

This, of course, makes perfect sense if you think about it for just two seconds. The money for December 9-21 salaries was appropriated and obligated. So those payments can be sent as part of normal shutdown operations.

It's the pay period after that where there is no money.

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 23, 2018

It's like Democrats have suddenly forgotten how payroll works. You get paid for that LAST pay period's work, folks.

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 23, 2018

But don’t take Malor’s word for it:

And you don't have to take my word for it, you can go look at OMB's shutdown guidance for yourself. https://t.co/cM5lhgD2Vs

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) December 23, 2018

'This is a lie': James Comey gets FACT CHECKED over shutdown payroll

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