House GOP leaders sending members home for the week amid deep divisions and looming shutdown

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I wish I could take time off work as often as the House does.

Become a government employee and you'll take off on October 1st, whether you want to or not.

Government employee here. It'll actually be the 3rd. We work our shifts for the first 72 hrs after the shutdown and then we go home. We do get back pay for all the hours we would have worked after the budget is approved, so that's nice. The service guys just have to keep working with no pay.

Yeah, I'm not sure how much they're going to have the military on their side if they cause this shutdown.