Pentagon: Shutting down the US government benefits Iran, China, and Russia.
“Sabrina Singh”, the spokeswoman for the US Department of Defense (Pentagon), said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday that the shutdown of her country’s government has harmed military readiness and “will have a huge and profound impact around the world”.
With the US government shutdown approaching, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense of this country added that as the government shutdown approaches, more than 1 million military personnel and civilian employees on leave are at risk of being unpaid during the shutdown period. Placed.
“Sabrina Singh” added that the shutdown of the US government will send a dangerous message to Washington’s enemies.
The US military official added: “If the US government shuts down, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran (which won’t shut down) – these are the countries that won’t shut down and will continue to operate.”
This is while it was announced last Friday that the Republicans of the US House of Representatives failed to advance the country’s defense bill for the second time in the said week. Republicans in the House of Representatives failed once again to advance the defense spending bill; An issue that is considered an ominous sign of the failure of the current American government to shut down.
The event came as a vote in the Republican-dominated House of Representatives to advance the Defense Department’s annual budget bill for the second time last week, with some Democrats joining them, failed by 212 to 216.
The Guardian reported that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who failed to convince lawmakers to discuss the Pentagon’s budget as in previous years, said it was a new concept of people who want to destroy everything.
The mentioned report pointed out that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America “with signs of despair and desperation” told Fox News that he does not know why anyone Do you not want to discuss and review this bill to move things forward? I know that obstacles have been created and challenges have arisen, But time is not on our side.
Meanwhile, if the US Congress fails to approve the federal government’s budget by the October 1st deadline, the “Biden” government will be shut down; Therefore, non-essential operations of the federal government will be shut down until further notice, federal employees must go on leave, military pay will be cut, and many federal government economic items will be disrupted.