Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Already Hit By Budget Cuts And Sequestration The FBI Must Now Face A Government Shutdown



FBI Now Tries To Manage With Shutdown After Sequestration -- Washington Times

Already hit by budget cuts and sequestration, the FBI is now trying to figure out how to deal with the federal shutdown that has laid off employees deemed “non-essential” to protecting national security.

The government shutdown that went into effect in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the result of the Democratic Senate and Republican House unable to agree on funding the government, has led to hundreds of thousands of federal workers being furloughed without pay.

FBI agents are expressing concern that the shutdown might worsen cuts made to the law-enforcement agency thanks to the mandatory budget reductions known as sequestration.

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My Comment: Apparently sequestration has already severely impacted FBI operations .... I can only imagine what a government shutdown will produce.

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