From Politico: THE GOP’S STEALTH SHUTDOWN — Stan Collender in FORBES: “As I first posted last week, 
congressional Republicans have effectively shut down the federal government without admitting it. They continue to come to work at least for a few days some weeks each month and are still being paid but, other than seemingly constant meetings of the House and Senate GOP caucuses, the Republican majorities in Congress not only aren’t doing much of anything, they’re also making it exceedingly hard for other parts of the government to do their jobs as well. In other words, as some readers said to me last week, it’s a GOP-caused-and-led stealth federal shutdown” http://onforb.es/1QQXfhI