Oh, fer cryin’ out loud. Not this (bleep) agian. Fedzilla does NOT shut down. Essential services, and brother there are a lot of them considered essential, still operate. And default is NOT a concern since Treasury takes in enough every month to cover our debt service payments.
Aaaassrgh.
“Essential services, and brother there are a lot of them considered essential, still operate.”
It would be an epiphany to actually have only those agencies that are Constitutionally mandated stay operational so we could see that indeed 90% of what we pay for at the Federal level is non-essential. But these agencies know that if that were to happen, their very existence would be threatened.