U.S. military personnel don’t automatically get paid during a government shutdown – but they’ve been paid before during government shutdowns, either through stopgap legislation or because Congress was able to pass a spending bill to keep the Department of Defense funded. Congresspeople always get paid during a government shutdown under federal law.
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The real disinformation is the idea that the US government can run out of US dollars, despite Fed. Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan letting the truth slip out.
That topic is probably worthy of its own post, e.g., “Is the US government gaslighting it’s own citizens about the National debt ceiling in order to defund public services? [true]”
If Snopes does that, I’ll eat my hat.