The average person has no idea how government finances and appropriations work......that is a big part of the problem. They expect someone to just wave a magic wand and make things happen.
Reality is often quite different.
I definately want soldiers to get their rightful pay and benefits but the point on soldiers pay is moot anyway. If you are not going to fund OPM, there will be nobody to process the bank transfers or send out the checks. So the soldiers won’t get their money anyway.
They got their pay in the last shut down in 1995.
THEN it follows that there should be no reason for the military not to get paid this time.
Bureaucratic BS just smells. And it won’t sell, to the American public, either.