What exactly does a government shutdown mean? I've seen shutdowns before, and nothing seems to happen.

I know government employees might not get paid. Beyond that... 🤷‍♀️

And if it was shutdown, as I understand the word shutdown (off, disabled, not running), how would if ever start back up? Don't they need to vote on whatever it was that lead to it shutting down? It's shutdown, so who's there voting?

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If the government shuts down in United States, people that live on government benefits and/or work for the government will not be getting paid. So a lot of senior citizens and disability people won't get paid of they shut down for a long time

Government funded stuff will be impacted