Veterans groups demand end to shutdown: 'Get your act together'

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Source: The Hill

Several veterans groups held a joint press conference Tuesday demanding an end to a partial government shutdown, saying that tens of thousands of veterans who now work as federal employees were paying the price as they are either furloughed or required to work without pay.

“We ask the president and the Congress to get together, get your act together and get this situation resolved,” Regis Riley, national commander of American Veterans, or AMVETS, said.

The White House Office of Management and Budget estimates that the agencies impacted by the shutdown employ at least 150,000 veterans.

The press conference, hosted by Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW), comes as the shutdown entered its 25th day, extending its record as the longest shutdown in U.S. history. About a quarter of the government has been without funding since Dec. 22, and 800,000 federal employees have missed a paycheck.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/news/425555-veterans-groups-demand-end-to-shutdown-telling-trump-congress-get-your-act

[DRoseDARs]

1. Bothsiderism. For vets, they sure are cowardly. It's not the pres and cong, it's the Republicans...

The Dem-led house has repeatedly tried to get things moving, rebuffed by Trump and his fellow the Republicans. Stop with the hand-wringing, don't-want-to-offend-anyone bullshit statements. This is the Republicans' doing, not the Democrats'.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. its just the prez only. he needs to quit throwing his temper tantrum.

[scarletwoman]

3. Tell it to Mitch McConnell. nt

[area51]

4. This. n/t

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. Meanwhile 42,000 Coasties are NOT GETTING PAID.

The U S Coast Guard is not getting their paychecks. The shithead in the WH screams about national security, but then fails to fund the Coast Guard -- our most essential homeland security force.

His hypocrisy meter should be broken by now. These people are not permitted to call in sick. They are essential to their work status and cannot call in for a sickout.

This frosts my freckles.

END THIS NOW.

END TRUMP NOW.

Rest assured, our enemies around the globe are salivating at how they can strike at us right now in this chaotic, out-of-control free for all right now. By being Putin's puppet, he has weakend us and left us vulnerable to no end of potential damage, whether economic, strategic, stock market, etc..

This must end before he does anything else stupider than just this.