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Originally Posted by buckman
The death benefit I believe is paid from the Pentagon out of the defense budget. Someone made the decision that this be cut. I don't believe it needed an Executive Order to be restored ,the money just had to be reallocated within the defense budget.
I stand by my assertion that under Rumsfeld this never would've happened .
This is what happens when you have amateurs running the show.
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During the shutdown the DoD budget was divided into exempt and non exempt functions. They didn't see the death benefits as being covered by law.
Saying that Rummy would have never let it happened is silly, you have no way of knowing that.
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