Washington (AFP) - The US military's nearly 1.4 million troops will
stay on the job in the case of a government shutdown but they will not
get paid, the Pentagon said Friday.
And if Congress fails to agree
on a new budget measure by the close of the fiscal year on Monday,
September 30, "roughly half" the Defense Department's nearly 800,000
strong civilian work force would be placed on unpaid leave, top
officials said.
The war effort in Afghanistan and other
high-priority missions would not be affected but most training and a
range of maintenance work would be cancelled if Congress remains
deadlocked, according to the Pentagon's top financial officer Robert Hale.
"We wouldn't be able to do most training, we couldn't enter into most new contracts, routine maintenance would have to stop," he told reporters.
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