Athletic occasions are allowed to renew this weekend at Division of Protection faculties, reversing some postponements introduced earlier this week in response to President Donald Trump’s govt order proscribing government-funded journey.
Division of Protection Training Exercise sporting occasions typically contain groups touring lengthy distances between far-flung faculties of their areas. The company operates 161 faculties in 11 overseas nations, seven U.S. states, Guam and Puerto Rico.
“DODEA has obtained additional steerage to proceed athletics and a few extra mission-related extra-curricular actions, and is working via the evaluation course of now to establish such areas,” DODEA spokesman Will Griffin mentioned Thursday.
“As some occasions scheduled over the following few days have been paused, DODEA employees at headquarters and the three areas are coordinating to work via logistics and scheduling as shortly as attainable,” he mentioned.
On Wednesday, DODEA officers in Europe notified college employees and households in a letter that athletic occasions could be postponed within the area, stating there could be an try to reschedule as soon as funding and journey was accessible.
Trump’s Feb. 26 govt order referred to as for a evaluation of all government-funded journey and ordered businesses to scale back and consolidate spending on government-issued journey playing cards.
The Protection Division ordered civilian staff to cancel all nonexempt official journey, permitting journey solely in direct assist of navy operations or a everlasting change of station transfer. The DOD memo additionally capped authorities journey cost card spending limits at $1 for civilians whose duties don’t require exempted journey.
Griffin mentioned DODEA has not obtained steerage on operations throughout a possible authorities shutdown, leaving the destiny of this weekend’s sporting occasions unsure if lawmakers fail to achieve a deal by Friday evening.
In previous shutdown steerage, DODEA academic actions have been exempt, however sports activities and extracurricular actions weren’t, except totally funded by nonappropriated funds.
Karen has coated navy households, high quality of life and client points for Navy Instances for greater than 30 years, and is co-author of a chapter on media protection of navy households within the e book “A Battle Plan for Supporting Navy Households.” She beforehand labored for newspapers in Guam, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Fla., and Athens, Ga.
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