{"id":1025898,"date":"2023-09-26T19:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1025898"},"modified":"2024-05-16T17:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T17:41:33","slug":"icymi-politico-government-shutdown-harms-military-readiness-puts-military-pay-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-politico-government-shutdown-harms-military-readiness-puts-military-pay-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Politico: Government Shutdown Harms Military Readiness, Puts Military Pay at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong><em>\u201c\u2018If the U.S. government shuts down, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran \u2014 these are countries that are not shutting down, that are continuing their operations,\u2019 she said. \u2018Any type of shutdown, any type of impact to our military and readiness, has huge, profound impacts across the globe.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/26\/government-shutdown-military-pay-00118117\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Government shutdown would put pay for over 1M military members at risk, Pentagon says<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Matt Berg, 9\/26\/23]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A government shutdown would harm military readiness and have \u201chuge, profound impacts across the globe,\u201d Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said Tuesday morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>With a looming government shutdown, over 1 million military members and furloughed civilian employees are at risk of going without pay during the shutdown period, Singh said on CNN, adding that a shutdown would send a dangerous message to Washington\u2019s adversaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIf the U.S. government shuts down, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran \u2014 these are countries that are not shutting down, that are continuing their operations,\u201d she said. \u201cAny type of shutdown, any type of impact to our military and readiness, has huge, profound impacts across the globe.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An immediate impact could be having command costs and stations without enough personnel to continue missions, Singh said, also underscoring the struggles that military families with children and mortgages would face.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When the government last shut down in 2018, lawmakers passed a measure allowing for military personnel to continue being paid throughout the period. When asked if she\u2019d support such a measure, Singh initially dodged \u2014 blaming lawmakers for putting Washington\u2019s national security at risk.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pressed on the issue, she conceded: \u201cOf course we are always going to support any pay for our military families,\u201d Singh said. \u201cBut again, we really shouldn\u2019t be in this position.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201c\u2018If the U.S. government shuts down, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran \u2014 these are countries that are not shutting down, that are continuing their operations,\u2019 she said. \u2018Any type of shutdown, any type of impact to our military and readiness, has huge, profound impacts across the globe.\u2019\u201d Politico: Government shutdown would put pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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