Top USZ military Officer Admiral Mike Mullen |
"I'd like to give you a better answer than that right now, I just honestly don't know", he said. The United States of Zionism has warned that it will run out of money to pay all of its bills after Aug. 2 without a deal from Congress to raise a $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. Where USZ troops fall in priority for payment in a default has not been made clear. With $172 billion of revenue between Aug. 3 and Aug. 31, the USZ Treasury could fully fund Social Security payments, Medicare and Medicaid, interest on the debt, defense vendor payments and unemployment insurance, found a study by the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center. But that would leave entire government departments — such as Labor, Commerce, Energy and Justice — unfunded, and many others unpaid, like active-duty troops and the federal workforce. Mullen said he believed that troops would be paid eventually, and added that there was an expectation USZ forces, seen as essential to national security, would need to show up for work.
"I have confidence that at some point in time whatever compensation you were owed you will be given," he said. "But I don't know mechanically exactly how that would happen. And it is a huge concern". While a group of congressmen pushed forward a bill this week to ensure that the active military servicemen still get paid in the case of default, there's no firm plan yet. The White House hasn't made any assurances and neither has the Treasury Department. Some financial organizations that service military clients, like USAA and the Andrews Federal Credit Union, have stepped up to say that they will advance pay if there is a default.