Government shutdown threat eases after House passes a temporary funding plan, sending it to Senate

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87. I tried to look at them like that...

I went through two of them. Problem was, we lived paycheck to paycheck. Buying food for the critters and for us, and paying our bills during the shutdown... especially *rumps extended shutdown... felt more like a dystopian nightmare than a vacation. I guess we were strange. The critters in the house came before us. The bills came before food. The roof over our head came before food. I learned to absolutely, 100% detest and abhor *rump (as tho I didn't before that). While he ate his "safe" hamburgers and chicken in the safety of his SS, me and mine went without food during his temper tantrum over a fence that could be blown down in a big wind. And there were other DoD that were worse of than me and mine. That you and others were better placed than us and others like us during the extended shutdown I'm glad... I knew there were, even while we were going through it. I heard it said and bragged about. I also heard it from some of the students I served out in the field. But just realize it wasn't seen as a vacation with pay coming at a later date for everyone. Some of us had hard-on creditors and were worried sick the whole time. Some of us lost a lot and never made up some of us our losses -- both civilian and military low ranks.