Friday, February 27, 2015

Homeland Security Shutdown Imminent After House Fails To Pass Stop-Gap Funding Bill


Homeland Security Shutdown Imminent After House Fails To Pass Stop-Gap Funding Bill
ZeroHedge
27 Feb 2015
http://bit.ly/1Aj83X6
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While more votes are expected tonight (and this weekend), as The Guardian reports, a handful of Republicans defied Boehner's leadership and joined with Democrats to defeat the bill.
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What happens if we go into the weekend without a DHS deal? In the event of a shutdown, the vast majority of DHS employees would stay on the job. DHS Secretary Johnson said earlier this week that about 30,000 of DHS's approximately 240,000 employees would be furloughed. The rest would be considered exempt and most would have to work without pay... FULL REPORT

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The bastards caved and kicked the can down the road for another week.

Unknown said...

don't get your hopes up they will get their funding

Anonymous said...

People say they can't pass these large spending bills because the government doesn't have any money. They never have had any money and that hasn't stopped them before. As long as they have a Federal Reserve, that can create funny money out of thin air, they always have plenty of money. All they have to do is say: "Hey FED, how about a few trillion more bucks?"

Anonymous said...

GOOD! Go ahead and shut them down and fire all of them! Bunch of leaches stealing the taxpayer funds from America to use against America. Let them get a tin cup and sell pencils on the street.