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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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.