It gives the wealthier members leverage over the poorer ones. The more wealth you’ve accumulated the longer you can sustain an unpaid shutdown.
Real countries prevent shutdowns from happening. You could keep spending under the precious budget until the new one is agreed to, but the us is not a real country.
This is not what a pay freeze achieves.
Almost all of them are independently wealthy stock traders.
This precisely weakens the senators who are working class enough to need the salary.
It gives the wealthier members leverage over the poorer ones. The more wealth you’ve accumulated the longer you can sustain an unpaid shutdown.
Real countries prevent shutdowns from happening. You could keep spending under the precious budget until the new one is agreed to, but the us is not a real country.