Not a problem unless you work for the FBI, Customs or border enforcement, national forestry, Bureau of Prisons, national park service, Air Traffic Control, NTSB. USDA ,meat inspectors, national weather service, or a few dozen other agencies and all those kind of people that would not get checks on the 1st if there is a government shut down. Sure they will get back pay, but this playing chicken with federal budget is more like chicken sh#t.
FBI, forestry, prisons, park service, NTSB, USDA, food inspectors ... all that can be handled by the States ... if they want to ... if not, so what? ... ATC and the weather service are borderline ... if a State doesn't pay, just route air traffic around, if farmers don't get weather forecasts, they lose ... their problem ...
New Orleans is one of the busiest shipping channels in the world, let them build their own damn levees ... bunch of States just sucking off the teat, the ones who would be hurt the most by this upcoming shutdown ... and they vote in favor of this treatment ... let the Red States fund themselves for a while then ... let the big mean liberal Blue States keep their money and use it to solve their problems ...
The fiscal management haggling of both parties and houses of congress and the pres are to blame.
Near as I can figure ... there hasn't been a proper appropreations bill passed into law in many many years ... every few months, we get yet another continuing resolution ... no planing, no guidence, no budgeting; just spend spend spend ... $30 trillion debt in 12 years, do the math ...