Half are DoD civilians and a huge number perform vital functions that support military readiness. Many of those positions were created during the Clinton downsizing as they shrunk the military but had to retain vital functions (while trying to hide that fact).
For example, maintenance of technical or unique weapons systems for the national guard or reserve.
Those soldiers obviously don’t do it themselves since they only work one weekend a month.
Who does it? Who keeps them ready for rapid deployment?
DoD civilians....federal civilians.
More importantly here, EV, is this observation: the democrats just agreed to funding this separately...although after the fact.
What other areas could that same strategy be employed? Let’s post-dated-check fund some other areas that they’re bellyachin’ about.
For example, post-date fund the parks. Then we can run them with the assurance that the IOU is already paid.
Right. My understanding is that the contractors are not being paid. Also, the National Guard troops whose drills have been cancelled this month are not being paid. I know that one for a fact. My son is one of those trying to figure out how all the bills are going to get paid this month.