After a federal payroll division mistakenly paid workers at the Chemical Safety Board, which investigates toxic and hazardous chemical disasters, Trump officials scrambled to claw back the money.

"As hundreds of thousands of federal workers fretted Friday about how they will pay bills amid the partial government shutdown, the missed paychecks turned out to be particularly cruel for nearly three dozen employees at one obscure government agency.

Their checks slipped right through their hands, or at least through their bank accounts.

Because of an apparent clerical error, a federal division that processes paychecks for a big chunk of the government workforce mistakenly paid about 30 employees at the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. The District-based board investigates industrial chemical accidents, but nearly all of the board’s employees have been furloughed during the government shutdown."

Juliet Eilperin and Tim Craig report for the Washington Post January 11, 2019. [2]