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Eventually people outside the government would care. While things like mail will still be delivered and planes would still fly, things like passports won't be issued, some home loans won't be processed, biomedical research at the NIH would stop, the CDC's annual seasonal flu program will have no support because employees are not there (and this has been a deadly flu season), some environmental cleanup projects would stop, and national parks will close (although it sounds like Trump is going to permit some parks to stay open), if the shutdown goes on too long military personal won't be paid and training programs will stop (the military one that bugs me the most though is the families of those killed in action during a shutdown won't get the $100k death gratuity benefit and military funeral services), and it usually ends up costing tax payers a lot of money when things start up again.
It would be interesting if they did one and didn't pay everyone anyways. Seems so dumb to shut it down but once it's over employees and vendors get paid as if nothing happened. Monumental waste of money.
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