“During a stopover in Ireland, Pence greeted US soldiers at Shannon Airport in Ireland hours after the federal government shutdown. Pence told troops: “We’ll get this thing figured out in Washington.”
He told the soldiers to “stay focused on your mission.”
Pence told reporters that “we have soldiers that are headed down range to Kuwait for six months in a critical theater to serve the country, and yet because of Democrats in the Senate, they have anxiety about their pay.”
He said: “It’s disappointing to every American that Democrats would shut down the government at a time when we have troops in harms way.”
https://nypost.com/2018/01/20/pence-blames-democrats-for-government-shutdown/
During a shutdown are any aspects of the Constitution curtailed? Can, for example, the president take unilateral action over his branch where Congressional approval would otherwise be required? Does a shutdown mean anything more than that some bill payments are postponed? How is this different than at any other time when the gov does not pay its bills on time?