For those government workers out of work with no pay check it is actually illegal for them to get another job anywhere. It would have to be reviewed by an ethics committee and the ethics bureau is shut down.

You may hear that all missed salaries will be reimbursed but there is no existing Congressional law that guarantees that. In other normal times Congress helped reimbursements but these are not normal times.

Lies are being spewed fast and furiously by White house cabinet figures and the President but no one knows if a national emergency can be based on an obvious lie.

IRS forms are unavailable to people seeking to mortgage a home. But buying homes with cash is OK. It is ironic to expect border agents to work for free or dangerous to have air traffic controllers volunter to work for free.

By this weekend the Trump shutdown will be the longest shut down in history.

How many will quit is unknown.