Summary
The Pentagon warns that a potential government shutdown by Friday will halt military paychecks during the holidays unless Congress reaches a funding agreement.
Troops, including overseas and reserve forces, must continue reporting for duty unpaid, with federal civilian workers also affected.
The issue stems from House Republicans abandoning a spending plan after criticism from Donald Trump and Elon Musk over unrelated provisions, leaving lawmakers scrambling for an alternative.
Military leaders caution that this funding lapse will cause widespread disruptions, though such outcomes have been partially mitigated in past shutdowns.
President Musk does not give a fuck.
No worries. Just don’t vote for the draft dodging felon next time. If there is a next time.
I know when I’m planning a hostile takeover of a world government I always piss off the military first thing. even better if you can do it by taking away their paychecks for Christmas.
Wait, did you think they wouldn’t blame the Dems?
Hopefully it helps the troops make the right call when the orange VP and President Musk declare marshall law.
Orange Musk probably hope that only loyalists will stay enlisted and everyone else quits.
Because, as we saw in Iraq, having large amounts of competent military personnel no longer in the military because of politics walking among the general public leads to good long term outcomes.
Why are they calling Marshal that?
Lol, I fixed the auto capitalization but didn’t notice the spelling change.
Sounds like financial terrorism
Oh god I hope so. Recruitment is already falling fast in the US. No one wants to be soldiers. Which good, USA needs to stop being a warmongering nation. Less soldiers equals less wars, it’s a simple numbers game. If you ALSO take away the paychecks of the few stupid enough to be loyal to this violent nation, well that’s it, we’re done.
*Edit: A literal starve the beast.
The numbers stopped adding up years ago. There are 1.5 military contractors (largely not US citizens) for every 1 enlisted soldier in the US military. We just pay people to fight our wars. Otherwise we would have to draft and people would get upset about our endless wars again.
You dont need a ton of people if you bomb everyone with autonomous drones, which is exactly what they are doing.
True, but you do need people to man the nearly 800 military bases the US has around the globe and I’m sure pretty much everyone except the neoconservatives would like to see many of those shut down or transferred to be run purely by their host government
Unfortunately a smaller volunteer army does not mean less war, it just increases the odds of conscription if we do get into a conflict.
Less soldiers equals less wars, it’s a simple numbers game.
You underestimate Republican willingness to fight wars with low/no oversight civilian contractors.
Republicans are so good at the economy and foreign policy guys. The best.
Pretty sure they’ve always gotten paid after the fact. As long as everyone has plenty of savings to fall back on and this doesn’t happen over any major gift giving holidays …… clearly one of those disconnected from reality situations, where the people making this decision have the means for that to not be serious, even if they let themselves be affected
Nothing ever happens.
They voted for it
inaction is a choice.
Lmao Elon is just dangling their paycheck infront of them like a carrot on a stick
Oh damn shucks oh no
Just deploy them. Then they won’t need their pay. I’m sure the US can find something for them to do.
