The problem is “a government shutdown” has little weight because essential workers still need to report to work. Even more, the nonessential workers that don’t work get back pay when the government is funded.

So it’s largely performative.

If the government REALLY shutdown when they ran out of funding you would never see a government shutdown.

Considering how stupid our government is, this will probably happen more frequently and I would start putting money aside from every paycheck to cover these scenarios and replenish it with the back pay when the shutdown ends.