No, as of when I started writing this at 5:00. So, we’re still a few weeks out from a budget shutdown in Washington. I thought we were supposed to have something. I don’t see any reports that there’s a snag, so who knows? If we run out of time without a budget, well, terrible things:
During a briefing Thursday, the Governor’s chief of staff Mary Alice Heuschel said that 34 state agencies would shut down completely, including the Governor’s office, the Auditor’s office and the state Lottery. The Governor, himself, would remain on the job.
The plan calls for 24 agencies to shut down partially, including the Department of Ecology, Employment Security, Fish and Wildlife and the Health Department.
“The Department of Corrections estimates that approximately 3,000 of their 8,000 employees would be [laid off] and they’re an agency that has federal mandates to continue a large portion of their operations,” said Brown.
Services for the needy would be cut back, including child care subsidies and food and nutrition programs.
Twenty-five state agencies would remain open, including colleges and universities and departments that don’t rely on the operating budget for funding.
But you know, Rodney Tom probably won’t personally suffer, so who cares?
I think Rodney Tom plans to run for Governor and use Dino’s slogan: “I balanced the budget….” etc.
Carl it seems to me that the link to the original story is broken. Got a new one?
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Thanks. It should work now. I don’t know why, but sometimes I copy and paste a link and there isn’t a “http://” and so it thinks it’s a link within HA. I usually try to catch that, but often it slips through.
Thanks. I have read a number of articles on this just not that one.