Lawmakers and advocates characterized the government shutdown and the partisan politics fueling it as “disastrous” for retired and active-duty service members, who they said rely on food assistance and medical coverage provisions at risk amid the funding lapse.
“This shutdown is really disastrous for our current military, and it’s not just because of the financial worry, which is very high,” Kathy Roth-Douquet, co-founder and CEO of Blue Star Families, told NewsNation's Was...