“Don’t call my bluff, because I’m telling you right now: I got nothing.”
The efficiency of the shut-down process and how many extensive tweaks it has shows how they have planned and hoped for it.
This whole thing of operating without a budget for six years and using CRs to keep government spending where it was is clear for all to see. They are now trying to make as big a mess as they can and cause pain to get socialist programs further locked in place.
Yepper - it’s akin to shutting down highways because funding, for unnecessary new roads and minor repairs on existing roads, has been delayed. There is no logical reason except to demonstrate a childish hissy fit now resides in the WH.