Agree, quite a few haters on FR always grouping all federal employees together. I will just chalk it up to ignorance.
Agreed as well.
What isn’t being reported tho is that, due to how the Federal pay periods work most Exec Branch Feds were paid this past weekend and aren’t due to get paid again until the weekend of Oct 12th. Congressional staff, who get paid monthly are in even better shape.
So no one is going without pay, not being able to pay bills, etc yet. We’ll see what happens come mid-month ... but I guess this is all over and the Feds will still get paid.