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https://www.fms.treas.gov/fmsweb/viewDTSFiles?dir=w&fname=13100300.pdf
206bn spent since beginning of the month, minus 117 bn in debt payment (after 106bn borrowed), equals about 90bn spent. About half of this is Social Security and Medicare, but the other half is
2bn to defense vendors
2bn to education dept
2bn to federal salaries
3bn to HUD
1bn each to Energy, Food Stamps, HHS, unemployment, veterans. Billions more to other depts.
Thats just in 4 business days. Not much of a shut down. The govt avgs about 10bn a day when not 'shutdown'. Then you have stories like this
206bn spent since beginning of the month, minus 117 bn in debt payment (after 106bn borrowed), equals about 90bn spent. About half of this is Social Security and Medicare, but the other half is
2bn to defense vendors
2bn to education dept
2bn to federal salaries
3bn to HUD
1bn each to Energy, Food Stamps, HHS, unemployment, veterans. Billions more to other depts.
Thats just in 4 business days. Not much of a shut down. The govt avgs about 10bn a day when not 'shutdown'. Then you have stories like this
Brianna Ehley
The Fiscal Times
October 2, 2013
Just hours before Congress shut down the federal government and put hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of work, the Pentagon quietly went on a shopping spree and spent billions.
The Defense Department awarded 94 contracts totaling more than $5.5 billion on everything from Mercedes-Benz trucks and robot submarines to a new gym at the Air Force Academy, complete with a television studio, Foreign Policy first reported.
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