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In the run up to a potential shutdown in September 2023, the Defense Department said in a memo to Pentagon leaders that "military personnel will not be paid until such time as Congress ...
The record-setting partial U.S. government shutdown, which began in December 2018, continues to drag on but, though hundreds of thousands of federal workers aren't getting paid, members of ...
The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 was proposed during the shutdown's third week, and was signed into law within two weeks after that after overwhelming, bipartisan support in Congress. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Ben Cardin as S. 24 on January 3, 2019 with 30 cosponsors. [8]
If there is a government shutdown, the U.S. military operations overseas and domestically will continue, but U.S. service members won't be paid during that time.
During a government shutdown, federal employees who are classified as "nonessential" are sent home and paid once the government reopens. "Essential" workers – those necessary to keep the most ...
The MCCARTHY Shutdown Act (short for My Constituents Cannot Afford Rebellious Tantrums, Handle Your Shutdown Act) is a proposed United States federal law which (if passed) would prohibit members of Congress from being paid during a government shutdown among other provisions.
Due to the Pay Our Military Act and other laws related to the shutdown, most of the Pentagon's 800,000 civilian workers and the American military's 1.3 million active-duty soldiers will get paid during the shutdown, but the 800,000 Guardsmen and reservists won't, unless a bill such as the Pay Our Guard and Reserve Act is passed.
Democratic Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blasted the fact that congressional lawmakers still get paid during a government shutdown. “Next time we have a gov shutdown ...