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Republicans have designated their Biden impeachment cmte. staff as 'essential' during their shutdown
...creeping around the Capitol trying to find something to impeach the president with is more important to House republicans than keeping our government running.
Not only would republicans be throwing BILLIONS of dollars down the shithole by shutting the government down, they'd be spending taxpayer dollars working to undermine the presidency and the Justice Dept.,while others are furloughed, and many actual essential workers who are required to show up will perform their jobs during the shutdown without pay.
CNN:
House Republicans are planning to plow ahead with their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden in the event of a government shutdown, though a lapse in federal funding could present logistical challenges to their investigative work.
In recent days, House Republicans – like all federal agencies – have been working behind the scenes to figure out which of their operations and staffers will be deemed “essential” if the government shuts down at midnight on Saturday. And it has been determined that the GOP-led committees heading the Biden impeachment inquiry will fall under that umbrella, according to multiple Republican lawmakers and aides, though formal shutdown plans are still being finalized.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer said a potential shutdown, now just days away, will have no impact on his staff and plans to keep issuing subpoenas, telling CNN on Tuesday, “We’re going to keep going.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan said his staff has been deemed essential and will continue with the steady stream of interviews his panel has lined up, including with top officials at the Department of Justice.
...meanwhile:
Half of the Pentagon's 800,000 civilian employees would be furloughed.
Most civil litigation would be postponed.
FTC's consumer-protection workers would be furloughed.
Federal courts have enough money to stay open until at least Oct. 13.
Lawmakers continue to collect paychecks, even as other federal workers do not. Staffers do not get paid, though those deemed essential would be required to work.
Some foreign aid programs could run out of money.
National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would furlough most of their workers.
17,000 of its 18,300 employees would be furloughed at NASA
Inspections of hazardous waste sites, drinking water, and chemical facilities would be halted.
Food-safety inspections by the FDA could be halted.
SEC would furlough some 90% of its staff and suspend actions.
Commodities and Futures Trading Commission would furlough its employees and halt oversight, enforcement and regulation.
Nutrition benefits provided to 7 million mothers through the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program would be cut within days, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would be at risk after October.
Monthly subsidies for public housing and low-income housing aid would run out of funds.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) could run out of money.
Education Department employees would be furloughed.
According to the White House, 10,000 children from low-income families would lose access to the Head Start preschool program.
The ability of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to mediate labor disputes would be halted because almost all of its 1,200 employees would be furloughed.
...House republicans have appropriated money to fund their political sham investigation of their political rival, at the same time they're withholding the money to run government agencies with actual responsibilities, furloughed workers hostage to their political agenda.
They would disrupt the country's economy, wasting billions of dollars in the process, to make this contradictory political faint about their fiscal responsibility. They're just that craven that they'd hurt Americans to try and bully the majority of Congress into having their way.
They are working to tear down the President, using taxpayer dollars, at the very same time they're working to bankrupt America.
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Since Congress gets paid anyway during shutdown ….
It’s not like everyone goes home
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...I'm trying to figure out how to respond without repeating myself, or just giving up.
From what I understand, this is a choice, not some inevitability. Besides the 'optics' CNN talks about, there's the stark reality of this two-fronted assault on the presidency and the nation in a cynical attempt to advance a political agenda they don't have votes for.
Or did you mean the republican claim? 
