Posted on 09/24/2023 7:10:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
With six kids under the age of 15 to support, Stephen Booth, a police officer for the Air Force in Kansas, doesn’t have room in his budget for a missed paycheck.
But like millions of other government employees across the country, Booth is bracing for his pay to stop indefinitely at the end of the month as Congress careers toward a government shutdown.
House Republicans left Thursday unable to reach a compromise within their ranks over a new budget, including funds for the Defense Department, with a handful of conservative holdouts demanding additional spending cuts. Unless Congress acts, the federal government will not be able to pay its 4 million employees after Sept. 30.
The shutdown comes at a particularly precarious time for many households already struggling with persistent inflation that has driven up the cost of rent, child care, groceries, transportation and utilities. At the same time, a string of Covid-era benefits have been expiring, such as the child tax credit, rental assistance and the pause on student loan payments, which are now set to resume in October. To cope, households have been spending down their savings and increasing their credit card debts over the past year.
“It’s really rice and beans time,” said Amad Ali, a claims specialist with the Social Security Administration in New Albany, Indiana, and president of his local AFGE union. “Most of us are dedicated civil servants and we keep on doing it, we keep on pushing forward, but it’s tough.”
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“Millions of Federal Employees”.....let that sink in for a second......
What truly astounds me is they’re highlighting a man with 6 kids. Probably had him on a list of people to blame for overpopulation.
When does Zelinskyy face the voters in a re-election contest?
On December 2, 1804 a man named Napolean Bonaparte was crowned Emporer of France and thus a question like this about Elections in France would’ve had the answer “never”.
https://historycollection.com/day-history-napoleon-crowned-emperor-1804/
Napolean also had some challenges with Russia. But he had a plan. How did it go for him?
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/napoleon-invades-russia
They trot this line out EVERY time a ‘shutdown’ is LOOMING!!
The wokers will get their back pay when it is over.
yup
career
2 of 2
verb
careered; careering; careers
intransitive verb
: to go at top speed especially in a headlong manner
a car careered off the road
Most of them are just useless.
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