Congress gets paid during a government shutdown. What about the janitors?

Many federal government employees will forgo paychecks if the government shuts down Oct. 1. But that won’t be the case for lawmakers, a liberal podcaster said.

“If the government shuts down, members of Congress still get paid,” said Dan Koh, host of “The People’s Cabinet” podcast in a clip he posted Sept. 29 on X. “The janitors never get paid.”

Koh, who worked as deputy assistant to former President Joe Biden, said in the clip that almost all janitors who work on federal property are employed by private contractors.

“There is no obligation, and Donald Trump, I guarantee you, has no intention of paying these janitors if the government shuts down,” Koh said. “So they get completely screwed. There is no back pay. They just get no money.”