Rapid Fire Oct. 1, 2013: Military Pay Exempt from US Government Shutdown

• Just as the US federal government was heading into a shutdown, President Obama signed a law exempting military pay from delay (HR 3210 aka Pay Our Military Act). That still puts a lot of DoD civilian staffers on furlough. Sustaining military pay is about the only thing Congress and the Administration have agreed to so far, apart from the fact it’s the other side’s shutdown, obviously.