The nation’s third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay. While they would receive back pay once the impasse ends, many military families live paycheck to paycheck.

During previous shutdowns, Congress passed legislation to ensure that troops kept earning their salaries, but time is running out before they miss their first paycheck in less than a week.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Republican politicians are on vacation right now

    Its clear they think either democrats will bend the knee and pass the republican agenda without protest, or they can pin enough of the blame on democrats via mainstream media control that they will feel pressured to cave.

  • dick_fineman@discuss.online
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    3 days ago

    Hah. Keep sucking on that spraytanned pedo-mushroom though. I’m sure he’ll hurt all the people you want to hurt, after he’s done hurting you and puting a Qatari airbase in fucking Idaho.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It annoys me when they talk about helping some and not others in this kind of thing. people in other agencies have families to.

  • TheBannedLemming@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Historically, one of the most effective ways to motivate or change people’s minds is to put their methods and means of making money at risk.

    Not paying your military properly is also one of the worst acts that civilian leadership can do that will create a divide in authority with loyalty, discipline, and morale.

    Many of the greatest massacres committed by military forces throughout antiquity were caused because their members decided to go AWOL and mutiny because the state and its leadership were unable or unwilling to pay their military members the wealth they were promised.

  • callouscomic@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Good. Fuck em. Everyone should suffer. The TSA and air traffic should also be shut down. Give this shithole what it deserves.

    Fuck everyone who has ever voted conservative.

    • frog_meister@lemmings.world
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      3 days ago

      Neo-liberals bear their part of the blame as well.

      We can’t criticize trump without people rightly saying that liberals don’t care about workers, either.

      They’d rather have fascism than socialism, so that’s what we all get.

      • Saeveo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        ICE is separately funded with an absolute fortune. They have nothing to worry about here.

  • mhague@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    These dudes joined the strongest gang for a chance to kill people and make some money. And now they’re not getting money.

    With how little you need to give a soldier before it thinks it’s doing good, I wonder how long until they start Defending Freedom™ against Americans.

  • Cryan24@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    So Trump will deploy the millitary against the no kings protests but not pay them… I can see that going well.

    • Inucune@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      We’d be in big trouble if he ever figured out he could pay them directly… But that would be spending his own money and we all know a Trump never pays their debts.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Not an American but… if you’re a soldier who is part of invading American cities, shame on you. Just following orders wasn’t an excuse then and it isn’t one now. But if you’re doing it and they’re not even paying you… I don’t even know. You might want to have a think about what it is you actually stand for.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    It would be funny if that’s what ended the second american civil war. ICE not getting funded because the government is coming to a halt financially.