{"id":62762,"date":"2020-12-12T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62762"},"modified":"2020-12-12T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:35:20","slug":"62762","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62762","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/11\/president-trump-makes-christmas-eve-a-federal-holiday\/\">President Trump makes Christmas Eve a federal holiday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Trump on Friday signed an order giving federal workers a paid day off work on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The news was a welcome surprise for workers who expected at most a half day.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s order says, \u201cAll executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Thursday, December\u00a024, 2020, the day before Christmas Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton only gave half days when Christmas fell on a Friday, as it does this year.<\/p>\n<p>Obama allowed a half day in 2015 and 2009,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/pay-benefits\/2020\/12\/feds-are-likely-get-half-day-christmas-eve-year\/170674\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GovExec reported<\/a>. Clinton also allowed a half day in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been a big advocate of celebrating the holiday proudly and maintained before taking office that politically correct Democrats were waging a \u201cwar on Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a Saturday rally in Georgia stumping for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/10\/joe-biden-to-campaign-for-democratic-senate-candidates-in-georgia\/\">two Republican senators<\/a> in runoff races, Trump warned that his political opponents still want to erase the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me begin by wishing you all a very Merry\u00a0Christmas. Remember the word?\u201d Trump told the crowd. \u201cRemember? We started five years ago, and I said, \u2018You\u2019re gonna be saying \u2018Christmas\u2019 again.\u2019 We say it proudly again. Although they\u2019ll be trying to take that word again out of the vocabulary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump makes Christmas Eve a federal holiday. President Trump on Friday signed an order giving federal workers a paid day off work on Christmas Eve. The news was a welcome surprise for workers who expected at most a half day. Trump\u2019s order says, \u201cAll executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62762\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-now-for-something-completely-different"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62763,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62762\/revisions\/62763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}