Legislative and Executive Branches should be impacted by the furlough in the event of of a government shutdown.

Due to lack of cooperation between two branches of the United States government, Executive and Legislative, unable to come to a budget plan for this fiscal year, the government is now on SHUTDOWN. Not one party is to blame-- all are responsible for this unfortunate state of the union.

When this happens all nonessential federal employs are placed on furlough, offices are closed and a percentage (usually around 50 percent or so) are on leave without pay for the duration of the shutdown.

This includes employees of offices such as the Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service and many others. National Parks and Monuments will be impacted as well and in years past during a government shutdown were closed to the public. Military personal are forced to work without pay during the duration of the shutdown, hoping to be compensated at a later time.

This petition is a call to have United States Congress and the President of the United States be included in the furlough when a government shutdown occurs. Similarly to the military personal, members of these two branches of government would be forced to work without pay until a solution presented itself and all agreed upon the budget proposal.

Overall, having an amendment where this was the case would put less strain on federal employees when a shutdown happens considering there are 435 members of the House of Representatives, 100 members of the Senate and the President of the Untied States. Members of the House of Representatives and Senate make a salary of $174,000 a year and the President makes $400,000 a year.

If this petition were to become an amendment, the Legislative and Execute branches would be held accountable when they were unable to work with one another to come up with an agreed budget plan, feeling the impact of a government shutdown just like other federal employees when a furlough happens. Perhaps if this sort of repercussion impacting those writing the laws and developing budget plans were in place, more cooperation may come in the future.

Remember, members of the House of Representatives and Senate as well as the President of the United States were elected to represent the American people and keep the government running despite their differences and if their party's agenda(s) get in the way of doing that task, they should also be part of those impacted.

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