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DoD Furloughs Could Start Next Month
July 23, 2010
Military.com|by Greg Grant

If Congress fails to pass a wartime supplemental spending bill by next week, before the congressional August recess, the Pentagon will begin to run out of money for operations and to pay military and civilian personnel beginning next month, the service under-secretaries told lawmakers Thursday.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has repeatedly warned Congress that DoD would begin to do “stupid” things if it fails to pass a war time supplemental before the August recess. “If the supplemental was not passed we would be in an emergency situation,” said Navy Under Secretary Bob Work, speaking today at a hearing before a House Armed Services Committee.

For the Navy, no supplemental by next week would result in an immediate and significant disruption in operations, said Work. Things would rapidly worsen from there with civilian pay beginning to run out in the middle of August, followed by large scale furloughs; paychecks for active duty personnel would stop going out in mid-September.

“Quite frankly the (Navy) department was expecting the supplemental before the 4th of July, there was really no serious thinking that it would go beyond summer recess,” he said.

Absent supplemental spending, the Army begins to run out of money in the domestic operations and maintenance accounts in the middle of August, said Joseph Westphal, the Army Under Secretary. “We are dangerously close to those deadlines.” The Army has already been forced to dip into its base budget to pay for ongoing operations in Afghanistan.

[Turbineguy]

1. That will be expensive.

[DrDan]

2. damn . . . they may have to look at ways to cut expenses

perhaps we can ask a few school administrators to offer some consultation

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. The bill that gave emergency aid to schools died this week but the defense spending bill passed

The education bill was attached to that defense bill. Then they removed the education funding before voting.

[Historic NY]

3. Oh boy yard sales & auctions...that ought to raise a few bucks.

[piratefish08]

4. "warned Congress that DoD would begin to do “stupid” things"

would BEGIN to do stupid things?

Begin? Really?

[lpbk2713]

5. Take away the personal jets.

The ones the Generals and the Admirals joyride all over the globe in.

[NC_Nurse]

6. Lay them off like everyone else. Why should they be immune?

I bet there are plenty of non essential positions at the Pentagon. Maybe it's time some of them got a first hand look at the civilian economy.