A federal shutdown has devastating short-term and long-term effects on the tribes. In 1995, the impact of the 21-day shutdown across the nation was to delay federal checks, impose furlough workdays for federal employees and closed down federal tourism and National Park services. That shutdown cost a whopping $1.4 billion. The tribe’s executive management is drafting up several scenarios to present to the Tribal Board of Directors to triage our funding with the goal of minimizing the impact on essential services and on essential positions, in that order. In most cases, the Sault Tribe already subsidizes a large portion of the federal government’s treaty obligations for ‘health, education and social welfare.’Get the Story:
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