They can permanently layoff all these government slackers as far as I’m concerned. Then, we can start with some other useless departments.
The longer this goes the more we will find out how useless these non-essentials become.
Only 8% of the federal government will be affected. And since most federal employees are off for the next 4 days (and a large percentage will taking vacation days until Jan 2), we’ll see practically no change.
The current Congress isn’t coming back until after Christmas unless ordered to do so. And the next one is sworn in Jan 3. So at least a couple after that.
I’m saying 14 days of non-stop coverage of how awful it is that a few hundred employees at the Cattle Observation and Witnessing Flatulence Authority Regulation Taskforce (COWFART) are staying home and watch porn instead of at work.