The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week for the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019, a measure that was written with an eye toward ensuring that federal workers who are not getting paychecks during President Trump’s government shutdown would eventually be compensated.

A total of 411 House Democrats and Republicans voted “yes,” and rightly so. As House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings said, “Regardless of what members think about the causes of this shutdown, every single one of us should agree that hardworking federal employees should not be held hostage to politics as a result.”

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, the town of Vermont Democrat who has compared the president’s behavior during the shutdown with that of “a spoiled child,” was a leading supporter of the back-pay measure. Wisconsin Democrats Gwen Moore and Ron Kind also voted “yes,” as did Republicans Bryan Steil, Mike Gallagher and Sean Duffy.

But U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Glenbeulah, joined six other right-wing House Republicans in voting “no.”

Grothman’s “explanation”? He doesn’t want “to give back pay to all federal employees, both those who work and those who don’t, during this government shutdown and all future shutdowns.”