
Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta is warning of the potential furloughs to some 800,000 civilian workers.
3:51 am on Thursday February 21, 2013
| Posted by Ken Hawkins | References The Island Packet
Hundres of Beaufort civil defense workers could face furloughs
Some 600 Beaufort-based Defense Department employees could see one-day-per-week furloughs if Congress does not act by the March 1 budget deadline.