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When the troops don’t get paid , the "Schumer shutdown" will cross a red line in the eyes of most normal Americans.

The men and women in uniform got their paychecks on October 1 and are scheduled to receive their next check on October 15. Unlike almost everyone else in the federal government currently not getting paid because of the showboating of Chuck Schumer and most of the Senate Democrats, soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and the Coast Guard do not have that option of quitting because they have not been paid.

Every other civil servant impacted by the "Schumer shutdown" can simply quit and seek other work. That’s inconvenient and stressful and in some cases probably a crisis for people, but even that unpleasant opt

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