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why doesn't the amerikkkan govt just save a tiny bit of funding for the few things that immediately run out of money for some reason during a "shutdown" (lemmy.ml)

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richest country on earth immediately stops paying its entire civil service when there's a disagreement on the budget which is something that literally only happens in the USA as far as I know.

I'm sure there's some 🤓☝️ reason like the govt runs on a blockchain that uses proof-of-anti-communist-law-passing to mine new blocks or something

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

This is a political maneuver, not an accident. If there was a fund to cover important expenses during a shutdown, then the leverage wouldn't kick in until the fund was about to run out, and that's when the negotiations would start happening. We'd be in the same position.