Good. It's a start.
What needs to happen next is for the GOP House to ensure taxpayers that not one dime of back pay gets handed out to these vacationing non-essential government workers once the government crawls back into "action". By the way, somebody please ping me when the government shuts down or opens up again because I won't notice either occurence.
Do not fear. Such essential functions like studies of the sex life of the Central American toad will not be cut.