Budget Impasse Could Hit Troops' Paychecks
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
(AP) --
A Pentagon spokesman says the Defense Department has not decided yet whether U.S. troops at war will be paid if the government shuts down this weekend due to the budget impasse.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell says department leaders haven't figured out how pay would be affected, including the 146,000 service members in Iraq and Afghanistan. He says the Pentagon would continue key national security responsibilities including fighting the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and continuing operations in Libya and earthquake assistance to Japan.
The CTer in me says the pentagon already knows the answer - and is leaking this hours before the big meeting today to put more pressure on repubs to blink. Behold the power of the incumbency - Dubya did it too.
