Career military confident lawmakers will avoid government shutdown
The majority of America’s career servicemembers and their families are confident that lawmakers will take appropriate actions to sidestep a looming government shutdown, according to the First Command Financial Behaviors Index®.
Survey results from late August reveal that 60 percent of middle-class military families (commissioned officers and senior NCOs in pay grades E-6 and above with household incomes of at least $50,000) believe that Congress will be able to take appropriate action to avoid a repeat of the 2013 government shutdown. And half believe that Congress will void sequestration before the full return to these automatic budget cuts in fiscal year 2016, which begins on Oct. 1.
This high level of confidence that Congress will dodge another shutdown and cancel sequestration stands in marked contrast to survey results from two years ago, when almost nine out of ten servicemembers said they were not confident that Congress would pass a continuing resolution to fund the government and avoid a shutdown.
The certainty expressed today by servicemembers belies the views of a more doubtful American Middle Class. Among general population respondents, only 30 percent are confident that Congress will avoid a shutdown and 12 percent believe lawmakers will void sequestration for the new fiscal year.
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