Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Blasts ‘Irresponsible’ Government Shutdown Threat

[Purveyor]

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, September 29, 2013 6:29 EDT

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel slammed Republican lawmakers as “astoundingly irresponsible” for threatening to shut down the government over a short-sighted political whim.

If Congress fails to agree on a new budget measure by the close of the fiscal year on Monday, officials estimate that about half of the Pentagon’s nearly 800,000 civilian workers would be placed on unpaid leave.

The US military’s nearly 1.4 million troops would stay on the job but without pay.

“When you look at the greatest democracy in the world, the largest economy in the world putting our people through this, that’s not leadership, that’s abdication of responsibilities,” Hagel told reporters on his plane as he headed to South Korea.

“This is an astoundingly irresponsible way to govern.”

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[Rex]

1. That is the best you could say to a clusterfuckdown?

Dude, your own party calls you a classless idiot - why not be a first in Washington and label your party as a threat to America? Abdication? Come on...stop being a spineless coward. Call it what it is. Treason.

[Cha]

2. Thank you, Chuck Hagel! The more people speaking out on this and in the news

the better!