I never realized how many government workers live paycheck to paycheck until I started seeing all the articles lamenting how federal workers living paycheck to paycheck are being hurt by the shutdown. It never seems to occur to any of them, or the writers, to build up some savings. Or get a different job. Something in the private sector that creates value.
These seem to be the only people impacted by the shutdown. Not the folks who need services, but the folks with a hand in our pockets.
Trumpmshould just exercise his prerogative as head of the executive branch to make at least some of this shutdown permanent.