Youre probably right but it's not just going to affect those receiving benefits directly.
That is real money they feed into the private economy and we've got about 2 weeks before daycares stop receiving childcare reimbursement vouchers and cant pay employees, from local hospitals & doctors offices not getting reimbursed for medicaid/medicare patients, landlords not getting paid from tenants using housing vouchers and in-home support services for home-bound elderly & disabled people will stop.
Additional, any business requiring federal licencing to operate isn't getting it right now and people planning on a USDA or HUD program to help buy a house can forget it.
What did people do before all those programs existed?
Good question but that's a bit beyond my point.
OP's questions suggests that Republicans shouldn't worry about welfare recipients getting their bennies since they probably don't vote republican anyway. What I'm saying is that the people that actually end up with that money (landlords, doctors, private employees, etc.) could easily be republican voters and they're going to feel the pinch right along side the actual welfare recipients...maybe more so since, unlike welfare recipients, they have actual, real financial obligations to things like employees, banks, utility companies, etc.
Maybe they won't blame the republicans..or maybe some of them will. But the idea that this shut down will only affect welfare recipients & federal workers is a false narrative. In a couple weeks it's going to cause a significant ripple affect right through the economy that will last well beyond the actual end of the shut down.
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