So... Most national security civs are either furloughed or working unpaid.
Troops are getting paid by increasingly legally sketchy means.
Critical infrastructure is either already on standby or close to entering minimum safe operations.

And we're sending an aircraft carrier to the War on Drugs?

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:

“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.