The nation’s third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay. While they would receive back pay once the impasse ends, many military families live paycheck to paycheck.

During previous shutdowns, Congress passed legislation to ensure that troops kept earning their salaries, but time is running out before they miss their first paycheck in less than a week.

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    2 days ago

    fucking up royally a layup of an economic situation.

    That’s the thing, though, we have a whole lot of useful idiots among leftists/liberals and of course “centrists” that keep giving an assist to the Confederate Party by trying to claim the economy last fall was not good and was not heading in the right direction.

    So you have The Annoying Orange and his apparatchiks saying things like “we have to dig out from the economic disaster the Biden administration left us in” - and a whole lot of people, not just Republicans, believe that load of horseshit.