Thoughts going out to the folks who are likely going to be impacted by a U.S. government #shutdown. 

That's people impacted by the federal government services stopping, AND the people who are directly employed by the gvt - all 23 million.

I was travelling abroad on a State Department-funded project 10 years ago when the government shut down. We kept working on our project without any clear expectation that we'd be paid for the work. We came out OK, but will that be true for for everyone?