Mabus: Navy Prepared In Case Government Shutdown Not Averted

By Olga Belogolova / September 30, 2013 at 6:02 PM
The Navy is prepared for a possible government shutdown in the event that Congress fails to pass a continuing resolution before the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said last week. "What we're doing is what [Defense Department]-wide is doing and that is doing the planning that we would need to do in case there is one of these shutdowns, but continuing the work in the hopes that we'll just go straight through," Mabus told...

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