troops may not receive pay? why..

[mdmc]

fb friend is asking- says it is Obama's call to make troops "non essential", therefore unpaid during a gov shutdown. This true?

[dsc]

1. No one gets paid, essential, non essential, or anyone else

essential decides if you work or not not if you get paid. On edit, non essential never get paid unless they use vacation days, essential eventually get paid so in that sense declaring troops non essential would cause no payment but that is a law not Obama's whim.

[tammywammy]

2. Obama never declared troops non-essential

In a shutdown no one gets paid (well, except Congress). Troops would receive their back pay once the government was up and running again, same as with all other essential employees that are working during a shutdown.

[fredamae]

3. The President and Congress still get paid

but not the military, that is correct. The house pubs tried to pass a bill to allow pay, but stuck a bunch of non related, unacceptable crap in it, so then the sen dems wrote a clean bill to specify that military pay would not be interupted in the event of a shutdown.