Isn’t this the bill that funds the entire defense department? What if it does not pass by October 1st? Does the country’s defense system shut down?
It seems to me that Reid is really playing with fire on this one. Can you imagine what would happen if soldiers families don’t receive their paychecks? How about the military’s hospitals, etc?
If they do this, the president should declare a national emergency and shut down all non-military, nonessential federal government services (that would be about 90% of it), and funnel the funds to national defense.