Chellie Pingree: “We know it is getting worse, not better.”

The people impacted by this funding freeze are hardworking, rural Americans and small businesses.

This is about farmers making ends meet.

There’s just not a lot of places to turn, and with huge budget impacts hitting everybody next year, I’m really worried about what’s going to happen with programs like this.

By stripping away the procedures that keep discipline fair for civilian employees doing the work of naval readiness... the proposed rule introduces costly unpredictability in the workforce and needlessly undermines readiness.