Entitlement. Backdoor reparations.
When you're talking about federal spending "entitlement" has a precise legal definition.
It has nothing to do with "feeling entitled" to something.
Welfare payments are *not* an entitlement.
Entitlements are paid regardless of the shutdown, such as Social Security and military pensions.
Federal spending is in this order: Debt service, entitlements, budget items.
Welfare is a budget item.
What's going on is the Democrats are willing to unleash riots and looting to get their budget.