APNewsBreak: Pentagon cuts number of furlough days
Source: Associated Press
APNewsBreak: Pentagon cuts number of furlough days
By LOLITA C. BALDOR | Associated Press Published March 27, 2013
WASHINGTON Defense officials say the Pentagon will sharply cut the number of unpaid furlough days civilians will have to take in the next several months from 22 to 14, reducing the financial impact of the budget cuts on as many as 700,000 workers.
Officials say Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made the decision Wednesday. Military and defense leaders continue to work through the details, trying to decide how to allocate the more than $10 billion Congress shifted to operations accounts. Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Initially, civilians would have had to take one day off each week for 22 weeks.
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/03/27/2481001/apnewsbreak-pentagon-cuts-number.html#storylink=cpy
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hay rick
(7,588 posts)What a surprise.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)to get them through the rest of the fiscal year. At least that's how I understand it. My husband's former coworkers were to be among those furloughed, so this will make them a little happier, anyway.
hay rick
(7,588 posts)Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-26/obama-inks-2013-funding-bill-locking-in-cuts-he-opposes.html
From the story:
"The new law, which runs more than 1,000 pages, orders the Pentagon to continue a tuition-assistance program for the military; adds $10 billion for the Defense Department to train troops and maintain weapons; and boosts an Agriculture Department nutritional assistance program for low-income mothers by $250 million. Under budget cuts, the Women, Infants and Children program had been reduced by about $350 million."
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)FFS.
Fuck the MIC.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)they call "bases". We're still paying to defend our "allies" who can either pay for it or do it themselves.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)APNewsBreak: Pentagon cuts number of furlough days
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BUDGET_BATTLE_PENTAGON_FURLOUGHS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-03-27-18-41-40