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Air Force 1 crew and Secret Service furloughed? (Original Post)
OxQQme
Jan 2018
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BumRushDaShow
(167,164 posts)1. No.
"Essential personnel".
Kilgore
(1,819 posts)2. No and no
Check this out, pretty much a symbolic shutdown in my opinion.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-to-know-about-a-government-shutdown/
shraby
(21,946 posts)3. Considered essential services.
hlthe2b
(113,202 posts)4. No... considered "esssential" personnel
Siwsan
(27,823 posts)5. I wold hope AF1 would be restricted to official government related business, only
Which would mean no pleasure flights to Florida.
