Germany will cover wages for personnel working on US military bases in the country
Germany plans to pay thousands of employees stationed at American military bases in the country whose salaries have been affected by the US government shutdown, the Finance Ministry in Berlin has announced.
The US federal government shut down on October 1 after Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on a spending bill in the Senate. The impasse has left hundreds of thousands of federal employees either furloughed or working without pay as the standoff enters its fourth week.
A spokeswoman for the German Finance Ministry told AFP on Wednesday that Berlin would…
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