Let’s sum up — economists say a recession can be triggered by 800,000 unpaid government employees; without federal workers the backlog of immigration cases is up by 43,000, a Georgia man openly carried a fully loaded AR-15 semiautomatic rifle into Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, IRS staff needs to prepare for the first tax season after the biggest tax cut in history, but, oh, they aren’t at work, etc. etc.
A judge finds that workers need not be paid when they return to work. Hmm, when was that done before? How about 1865? Those workers were called “slaves.”
Chaos reigns.