Yeah, but that's before you're told that you are essential and have to buy gas and come to work to pat down people before they board the airplane while not getting a check.
According to reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-shutdown-what-closes-what-stays-open-2023-09-21/
2 million U.S. military personnel would remain at their posts. Agents at the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other federal law enforcement agencies would remain on the job, and prison staffers would continue to work. Border Patrol and immigration enforcement agents would continue to work, as would customs officers. Airport security screeners and air-traffic control workers would be required to work. U.S. embassies and consulates would remain open under the State Department's 2022 shutdown plan.
Those people might decide to vote for a non-republican candidate.
What's gonna rub the die hards the worst?
White House furloughs could make it harder to comply with the impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden, a Democrat, by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
The U.S. Constitution specifies that the president continues to get paid.
That's right, the Republican freedom caucus will potentially delay the impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden while he gets paid to be in office. And that might actually be a Democratic talking point, especially if there's the daily jab by Biden, "I just want to thank the Freedom Caucus for slowing down my impeachment investigation by shutting down the government. Thanks Marge!"
