Boehner Needs to Go

[poppy]

John Boehner is playing a dangerous game with livelihood of so many Americans who serve this country. This prick is threatening to shut down the DHS and stop active and retired military pay which affects me personally. Stop screwing with people's lives and pass a clean funding bill!!!!!

http://www.military.com/daily-news/...al-to-fund-dhs-avoid-pay-lapse-for-coast.html

"If our appropriations lapse, Coast Guard men and women standing watch globally will not be paid," Zukunft said in his message. "Further, over 6,000 valuable Coast Guard civilians -- or nearly three-quarters of our total civilian workforce -- will be furloughed, again with no guarantee of pay."

The House voted down a bill Friday that would have extended funding for the $40 billion Homeland Security Department for another three weeks, leaving 42,000 Coast Guard active duty members and 34,000 retirees to face the loss of their paychecks.
The 224 -203 vote was a stunning rebuke to the House Republican leadership that backed the stopgap bill.
Amid confusion on the House floor, the leadership scrambled to come up with an alternative before the midnight Friday deadline for the Homeland funding cutoff, with the possibility that the next vote might not come until next week.
Failure to reach a deal on a funding bill would force Coast Guardsmen and about 80 percent of Homeland's personnel to work without pay until a compromise could be reached.

 

[Will B]

The only comment I'll make is that the DHS is what is referred to as an "essential service". People can defund it all they want, but it will not shut down as a result.

 

[Lake View Too]

Why is it funded in such a peculiar way, and not lumped in with all the other government departments? Pretty weird, if you ask me ...

 

[poppy]

The only comment I'll make is that the DHS is what is referred to as an "essential service". People can defund it all they want, but it will not shut down as a result.

Which means by law they are required to work without pay. Thanks Republicans.