Can’t shut the government DOWN, unless you shut down all the States..
The federal government is a paper government..
The government is shutdown as soon as the media says it’s shutdown.
And even though hit is non-essential personnel only, it’s a 100.00% complete shutdown.
Even the debt payments are made, debt payments are not made.
And even though a government shutdown has never cost the GOP much of anything, it costs them everything.
Even just mentioning it threatens their very existence.