Good question for an odd situation.
They are poloticians that work for us but we don't employ them.
ya know, I just don't know.
On one side they are still working to get a budget.
On the other they fucked it up so bad that they should all be looking at getting fired.
If we don't have the money to pay most of government, then no one should get paid.
You don't pay me, I won't work, so we have to pay the pols to work.
meh
It's moments like this when I hope there is a hell.
We have paid them and now we owe the Chinese more money than we'll ever see. If they work, everything gets screwed up. Let's let them not work and see how that goes.