Votes scheduled for Friday: The partial government shutdown continues into its third day, and legislators have votes scheduled for Friday on funding bills that offer possibilities for extending funding. One would extend it until October 31, possibly putting us into this same situation several weeks from now. But why should we let our politicians get in the way of a good time?
Right now, some 750,000 federal workers are furloughed. The White House has, at every stage of this process, suggested that more permanent reductions in force will be considered throughout this shutdown, but a senior official told The Washington Post yesterday that the administration actually expects to fire some 16,000 federal workers or fewer.
