{"id":34907,"date":"2013-04-03T06:38:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T10:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34907"},"modified":"2013-04-03T06:38:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T10:38:54","slug":"hagel-to-take-paycut-for-sequestraton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34907","title":{"rendered":"Hagel to take paycut for sequestraton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like the guy, but he stands in glaring contrast to his predecessor. Chuck Hagel, the Secretary of Defense has vowed to take a pay cut when other DoD employees are furloughed, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/04\/chuck-hagel-will-take-pay-cut-under-sequester-89551.html\">Politico<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a political appointee, Hagel isn\u2019t subject to the furloughs, but Pentagon press secretary George Little said he would take a pay cut along with the workers who must begin staying home later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe secretary plans to subject his pay to furlough levels even though he is not required to because he is a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed official in this department,\u201d Little said.<\/p>\n<p>Since Hagel will continue to receive his normal payments, he would have to effectively write a check to the federal government for the amount of pay he would lose over 14 furlough days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It could also signal that sequestration isn&#8217;t going to last very long, but compared to Leon Panetta who made weekly trips home to California to be with his family at a cost of $33,000 while the people he commanded were deployed away from their families for months and years at a time, at least Hagel is somewhat decent and a brief breath of fresh air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like the guy, but he stands in glaring contrast to his predecessor. Chuck Hagel, &hellip; <a title=\"Hagel to take paycut for sequestraton\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34907\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hagel to take paycut for sequestraton<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}