• krellor@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    DoD civ go on furlough unless designated as essential. It also means many government contractors whose contracts aren’t prepaid will stop work as well and those folks don’t get paid in arrears.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’m from an area with a lot of military contacting and grew up seeing people go from doing ok to struggling for a while because some jackasses decided to shut the government down as a temper tantrum.