Schumer in talks with McConnell as shutdown fears grow: 'We may now have to go first'

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34. I'm a current Fed

I pay attention to parts of the NDAA and Defense Appropriations Acts each year, but I didn't know about that strategy. Thank you for the education!

Like you, I was furloughed in 1995 and that contributed to my decision to go back to school and leave the Government...never intended to return, but here I am all these years later with a few more to go. When the furloughs hit in 2013 and 2018 I was paid out of multi-year appropriations so not subjected to them. Now we're all paid from single-year appropriations so the cheese will be spread to probably most of us. Sigh.

What's different, at least for now, is that even the Republicans are saying this one is on them. Don't let them spin it later to be Biden's fault!