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sortagreen (and all) -- "You should also pay attention to the fact that Claire McCaskill (who did vote to keep the government open) offered a bill to keep the military [military pay] funded.. And Mitch shot it down." -- which is true, I watched it happen

[Christo=fascist lying sack of shit] Pence accuses Congress ["a minority in the Senate"] of playing politics with military pay

Vice President Mike Pence greets U.S. troops on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, [at an undisclosed military base in the Middle East] near the Syrian border. Pence, weighing in from the Middle East on the shutdown in Washington, accused the U.S. Congress of playing politics with military pay, and told American soldiers that the Trump administration would demand that lawmakers reopen the government.
Jan. 21, 2018
NEAR THE SYRIAN BORDER (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence, weighing in from the Middle East on the shutdown in Washington, accused the U.S. Congress of playing politics with military pay, and told American soldiers stationed near the Syrian border that the Trump administration would demand that lawmakers reopen the government.
Pence said they deserved their pay and benefits and service members and their families “shouldn’t have to worry about getting paid.”
“Despite bipartisan support for a budget resolution, a minority in the Senate has decided to play politics with military pay,” Pence said at the base, speaking in front of a large U.S. flag and a line of soldiers dressed in military fatigues. “But you deserve better.”
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https://www.apnews.com/b386955ffc9344ab80128a756a28d911/Pence-accuses-Congress-of-playing-politics-with-military-pay

and even now, this moment, Schumer is going over this very point again in the Senate