Is Anyone Profiting from the Shutdown?
Reading more and more shutdown stories, the latest
about how a private charity has stepped in to provide for families of military
members who die on active duty. The shutdown has prevented the disbursement of
funds that help these families grieving the loss of their loved one meet the
flag draped coffin and those funds, that don’t seem like much when you consider
the sacrifice of a life for our country’s freedom and ideals, shouldn't be withheld.
The private group providing the coverage will be reimbursed by the government
when it reopens. And there are others who will receive their pay retroactively
when the government reopens as they have after shutdowns in the past. In the
meantime though, is the government profiting from this shutdown? Perhaps
gathering up interest on unpaid monies that they are sitting on? Maybe not
since there is a looming budget ceiling battle on the horizon that all this
shutdown business has just supposedly been a lead in for. I was just wondering.
Or maybe Congress could throw any interest accrued during the shutdown at the
national debt. Nah, they’ll probably just vote themselves another raise.
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