This has got to be farce of the most rank kind.
Administration officials now live in fear of a 19th-century law that
could get them fired, penalized or even imprisoned if they make the
wrong choices while the government is shut down.
CNBC has learned that in several executive branch departments,
high-level staff members review individual decisions about what
government activities to allow for fear of running afoul of the
Antideficiency Act. One White House official said he has advised his
employees not to check their email or cellphones. Under the act, even
volunteering for government service is expressly prohibited.
So we have the entire executive branch afraid to check their government issued iPhones and their government issued email accounts because of a law passed during the Grant Administration? Maybe the GOP can get Obama impeached after all if they catch him sending a Tweet from an Oval Office computer. I guess it would be a high crime and misdemeanor to access social media on a government phone. Our government is such a joke.
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