personnel management for additional guidance. the opm thursday tweeting suggestions for workers to send to creditors, landlords, and banks if they can't make their payments on time, like trading maintenance work for rent payments. >> that's absolutely unrealistic. federal workers will be penalized for not paying their bills on time when we just want to go back to work and do the jobs we were hired to do. >> reporter: thursday the president tweeting without evidence that most federal employees are democrats. workers say their politics shouldn't even matter. >> we are civil servants. we are hired to do our work at the epa, workers are hired to protect human health and the environment. if he wants to imagine that we are democrats instead of us being human beings and civil servants, that's his problem, and i hope congress steps up and is able to be the adult in the room. >> one thing to add, that tweet i just mentioned, that the opm is suggesting federal workers offer to trade manual labor for extra time paying their bills,