Posted on 08/06/2013 11:43:42 AM PDT by maddog55
WASHINGTON — The number of unpaid furlough days the Defense Department will impose on its civilian workers to save money for military operations will be slashed significantly, defense officials said Tuesday.
Lower than expected costs in Afghanistan, belt-tightening at the Pentagon and spending leeway from Congress prompted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to reduce furloughs from 11 days to six days.
The furloughs, which Hagel earlier said were made necessary by $37 billion in automatic defense cuts under sequestration, are taken at a rate of one day each week and effectively cut civilian salaries by 20 percent during the weeks they’re in effect.
Furloughs initially were planned for 22 days, but the Pentagon later cut the number to 11, an amount officials said would save $1.8 billion. The first defense furloughs began July 8, affecting more than 650,000 DOD civilians worldwide.
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What happended, did that fat little wood chuck see his shadow...five less weeks of furlough...
Welcome news regardless.
TC
I know some people struggled financially so for them, I am happy, but I loved it!!!! Three day weekends rule!
The first pay check with two furlough days in it must have arrived.
Just got the NIPR E-Mail!!!!!!:-)!
It did :-(!
It did :-(!
Yep, and all I can say is "OUCH!"
Then again, there are many more that are worse off then I, so.... counting my blessings.
My wife being the GREAT Navy Wife she is already had all 11 days of furlough factored into our budget so we were “expecting” this (it STILL sucked though) :-(!
It’s what they intended all along. I heard the conversations in the Pentagon at the time.
I am sure that the EPA is going to start a similar program.
I remember when Sequestration was being debated last winter. Both Rush and Hannity mocked it, and Rush said he "would love to see them try and furlough hundreds of thousands of Pentagon employees....we'll never see that!"
Well, when the furlough came, both Rush and Hannity were silent.
Nice.
When we are paying Billions to TANF welfare and Food Stamps, it is an obscenity to take money away from DoD nurses.
Call me crazy, but that is the truth.
yes it did and OUCH
God Help those who live from check to check
to put this in perspective, of the about 800,000 furloughs of federal govt employess - 600,000 were DOD!
Talk about a morale booster
Not looking forward to 2014 with Chuckles Hagel as chief defender of the Department of Defense
As soon as they received the news, they flooded tourist areas.
We don’t need D0D employees. All they do is waste money buying weapons to defend the USA from its enemies. Less face it, the World now loves the USA and respects us because the president has apologized for all the good the country did in the past. We are lucky that they didn’t furlough important people like those who run food stamps, provide Obama phones and other social welfare vital programs, that are at the center of a community organizers world view.
I spent 21 years in the military. Please bring your experience into this argument. What do you base your statements on?
Sequestration has been a knife across the throat to today's military.
If you don't wish to acknowledge this, or defend the institution you put in your tag line, fine. But that is your choice. In my opinion, any former military who refuses to speak up for the fiscal rape that is happening to the military is a traitor.
I can appreciate your sarcasm!
Yup- God help us if they ever start furloughs in the EPA
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