There is enough revenue collected monthly to pay the debt interest payments, the ssip payments and normal military operations. No “essential” services would be effected in the near or medium term.
However, if we keep killing the productive private sector with such a burdensome federal monster, this could change very well in the longer term, whether there is a budget, CR or nothing!
I was figuring it’d be something along those lines...
Basically, it’ll just be a combination of kicking the fiscal can down the lane more, with kabuki theater for the chattering classes.