Government shutdown

I maintain posting a bunch of articles on Facebook as well as thence I idea I would compile them inwards i place. I don't know how long this regime shutdown volition final as well as I don't know all the far-reaching consequences of a regime shutdown. Some of the statistics that I've been reading on how it volition touching the economic scheme are unsettling to read.

Bases are putting out on their Facebook pages as well as websites the diverse functions that volition live on affected past times the shutdown, including closures, express duty, as well as things that volition rest opened upwards amongst trivial modify (NEX as well as Navy Lodge, for instance-- "NEXs as well as Navy Lodges to Remain Open inwards Light of Possible Government Shutdown" past times Navytimes.com).

What does the regime shutdown hateful to armed forces families, immediately that congress has passed a neb saying armed forces volition continued to teach paid? (Washington Post posted this article, "As regime shutdown looms, Americans distich for possible disruption, disappointment," several days ago. It had some adept facts almost how the regime shutdown volition impact America, similar this quote:

Visa as well as passport applications from almost one-half a i K m prospective travelers would sit down untouched every week, as well as belatedly taxation filers facing an Oct. fifteen deadline would detect the telephone lines at the Internal Revenue Service dead. The National Zoo as well as museums on the Mall would closed to the public. The WIC program, which provides nutrient to 8.9 million low-income women as well as children, would live on out of money, its supporters say. And inwards the District, garbage could become uncollected.

Military.com posted this article "Troops' Pay Protected equally Government Shuts Down." Here are some highlights from the article:

Stateside commissaries volition closed afterward Oct. 1, routine medical appointments for troops as well as their identify unit of measurement members may live on delayed or canceled, as well as veterans’ benefits – from pension payments to telephone outcry upwards centers – could live on postponed... [D]eath benefits for survivors of service members killed inwards the province volition in all probability live on delayed, the official said.

Navytimes.com posted this article, "CNP: Shutdown could delay especial pay, tedious advancements." Quote from the article:

Sailors won’t have the danger pay they brand it state of war zones. And advancement results, personnel transfers as well as the grooming pipeline could all come across delays... Navy Personnel Command volition alone procedure permanent change-of-station orders to activities deemed essential or for those heading from kicking military camp as well as grooming to their starting fourth dimension duty station. 

This article was posted past times a immature human being Navy married adult woman as well as is amount of information, specifically for Navy families: "What We Know Now About the Government Shutdown" on Navy Life past times Vice Admiral Bill Moran.

The Wounded Warrior Project released this contention on the regime shutdown: "Government Shutdown Statement." Here are some quotes from their statement:

We volition maintain our nonpartisan seat on private issues, exactly volition utter out strongly on the postulate to resolve the electrical flow impasse, equally good equally the looming give-and-take over the national debt, without a interruption inwards the pay, benefits as well as healthcare earned past times America’s veterans, members of the military, as well as their families. These brave men as well as women fought as well as sacrificed for the rattling rights as well as freedoms that let these debates to become on. We owe them to a greater extent than than this.

(The Wounded Warrior Project's contention besides includes a basic listing of services that volition live on interrupted due to the shutdown, services that volition continue, as well as how to contact the WWP Resource Center if you lot accept specific questions.)

There is a lot of data almost the regime shutdown online as well as inwards the news. My hubby as well as brother-in-law are AD Navy. My parents are both non-essential personnel, equally are many of my friends. I have several friends who will be working through the shutdown, many of whom are contractors or essential personnel who volition non live on receiving paychecks.

I know that inwards my community, the regime shutdown has a rattling existent as well as rattling felt impact.

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