posty 2,296 Posted January 17, 2019 This. The whole tradition was created long before there was even a White House Press corps for chrissake. But strongly disagree with the morons who say that the shutdown isn't having a real impact on real people with real effect. First law that needs to be passed after the shutdown is nobody in Congress or the White House gets paid during a shutdown. And, unlike other employees, they don't get reimbursed after the fact either. Thatll light a fire under their ass. Some of them anyway. The ones that are in charge of this don't need the money, so it doesn't matter... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites