[jurroppi1]

The House bill would extend the shutdown deadline by another week, to April 15, while funding defense needs for the rest of this year so that troops’ paychecks would not be endangered by a shutdown.

Might make a difference to the Red Bull troops shipping out in a few months (my son being one of many). Or for that matter all the others that are there or here since if would impact all of them...

[K-Stater]

The House bill would extend the shutdown deadline by another week, to April 15, while funding defense needs for the rest of this year so that troops’ paychecks would not be endangered by a shutdown.

Because it's time to end the whole continuing resolution nonsense, and it's going to take a shut-down to get one side or the other to blink. This threat to military pay-checks has been known for months and now all of a sudden Congress is concerned with them?