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Financial paralysis in America threatens the dismissal of 80% of the Arms Department’s employees


The Republican representative and head of the in the US House of Representatives Mike Rogers on Friday, said that threatens to dismiss 80% of the employees responsible for managing the US nuclear weapons stockpile.

Rogers said in a press conference: "We were informed last night that Financial paralysis in America

He continued: "These are not employees you want to see go home. They should be at their work sites and getting paid"

The federal paralysis has entered its third week, without any signs of a solution, after the Senate failed on Thursday to approve the budget bill presented by the majority of Republicans.

The American Nuclear Weapon

owns ‘s arsenal includes more than 5,000 nuclear warheads, according to the organization "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists"

The National Nuclear Security Administration is responsible for designing, manufacturing, maintaining and securing nuclear weapons. It employs less than two thousand federal employees, along with about 60 thousand contractors.

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