Two thousand federal transportation workers will be furloughed without pay on Monday.[...]
[C]onstruction workers will be sent home from job sites because federal inspectors must be furloughed.
Among the construction sites where work will be halted: the $36 million replacement of the Humpback Bridge on the George Washington Parkway in Virginia; $15 million in bridge construction and stream rehabilitation in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and the $8 million resurfacing of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi.
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Federal reimbursements to states for highway programs will also be halted. [...]. The reimbursements amount to about $190 million a day.
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The furloughs and freeze on payments were the result of a decision last week by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning to block passage of legislation that would have extended federal highway and transit programs, the department said. Those programs expired at midnight Sunday.
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The extension of transportation programs was part of a larger package of government programs that also expired Sunday, including unemployment benefits for about 400,000 Americans.
We have to cut back somewhere folks, tanks and missiles are expensive.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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