General Discussion

.... I didn't pay the price. I'm not in the "who has 40 plus days of funding in reserve to survive on" category. So I might not be the best one to ask.

The other question to ask is "what was the alternative"? The alternative would have been to draw attention to the issue during more or less normal negotiations during a more or less normal period of the continuing resolution. With the increases and lack of subsidies coming up, the issue would become more real to more people and they would experience us fighting for them without undergoing the disruption of a shutdown. That might have been a better strategy.