Friday, April 8, 2011
If Government Closes, What will stay open?
If Government shuts down, without a budget approved tonight, what will stay open? ABC News Reports: As Democrats and Republicans bicker over $30 billion, thousands of government employees fret over whether they can go to work on Monday. After the current continuing budget resolution expires at 12:01 a.m. Friday, all "nonessential" government employees will be sent home until Congress passes and the president signs a budget for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. The problem is, no one knows exactly who is considered "essential." A senior administration official said about 800,000 federal employees would be prevented from working in the event of a shutdown. These furloughed workers would not be paid during the shutdown, zapping $1.1 billion out of the economy in unpaid wages for a week-long shutdown. ABC News has rounded up information from as many agencies as possible to find out who stays home who goes to work, and how it might affect you. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/government-shutdown-agencies-stay-open-close/story?id=13309873
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Fortunately we don't really have to worry about it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_spending_showdown
Though if the government shut down, the republicans would have been clearly to blame. They were willing to shut the government down over planned parenthood. At least some people came to their senses in time.
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