no pension...at the stroke of midnight, if not fired, he would have had the pension..
I think the deadline was Monday. But there is a long tradition in DC of dropping bad or damaging news at close of business on Friday, to minimize media frenzy.
I was inaccurate; the deadline wasn’t Monday, but it wasn’t midnight, either. Apparently it was tomorrow midnight.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3640297/posts
My concern is that his eleventh hour termination may open a loop-hole that will enable him to ultimately collect his full retirement.
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