Following LaLota, Gillen seeks to defer salary until government reopens

There's at least a second member of the Long Island congressional delegation asking House officials to withhold her congressional pay until the shutdown ends: Rep. Laura Gillen (D-Rockville Centre).

"I will be deferring my pay until the government is reopened. Both sides need to come to the table and work towards a bipartisan deal that extends the tax credits that keep health care affordable for Long Islanders," she wrote in a post on X.

She displays a letter, dated Oct. 1, to the House's chief administrator office making the no-pay request. Earlier Wednesday, Rep. Nick LaLota, R-Amityville), announced he'd done the same thing, in a letter to the chief administrative officer.