Conservatives are rallying behind a plan that calls for a pair of staggered, short-term stopgap funding measures to put pressure on the Senate to pass its own spending bills.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The VA is the largest healthcare provider in America…

    If there’s a shutdown, they all have to keep working and none of them get paid till after the shutdown.

    And to get them all paid, other federal workers need to do a bunch of overtime to get it done ASAP.

    So it costs even more to pay them what they should have been paid.

    It’s disappointing to see so many people act like this is somehow a positive for anyone.