When I served as a Marine Corps colonel, I realized that I wasn’t getting the kind of pay and perks that one gets in the commercial sector. But I was proud to serve, and my wife and I could always count on my paycheck. That security’s gone.
As Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh recently noted when we were barreling toward a shutdown at the end of last year, “Troops would go without pay. Military families would be impacted, of course … a shutdown would be detrimental for the department.”
But lately we have normalized shutdowns without regard to the people they hurt. A partial shutdown will begin on March 1 unless a budget or spending stopgap is passed. The government will go into full shutdown if the House is unable to pass a budget or stopgap by March 8. And no new budget by April 30 will trigger a 1% across the board spending cut — not really the way to run a railroad or the U.S. government. Pundits predict House Speaker Mike Johnson will struggle to avoid a shutdown…
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