Cue the sob stories.
Congress should be the first to lose their pay.
Then the agencies.
Then the administration.
Then the judicial system.
I agree with the first two.
I DO NOT agree with the third.
"administration" is so broad a word as to be meaningless.
Congress(the Legislature) does not have the ability to shut down the other two divisions of our government.
They can shut off all operating funds.
And get this :Federal Agencies have been allowed forever to set aside "reserve funds" from their current budget for the express purpose of mounting an illegal "runaround" the total shutdown of Federal functions assigned to them.
Any new budget adopted cannot exceed the existing budget reduced by the amount of the "reserved" funds identified for every federal agency abusing the current practice.
Congressional aides, secetaries, pages, should all be furlouged today. Congress’ pay checks suspended until they do their jobs, not that they actually work, that is for aides and Lobbyist are for.