If I worked for the mafia doing all sorts of racketeering and bullying, the big boss suddenly got arrested, and I stopped getting paid, I'd shrug my shoulders: oh well! It was a nice gig while it lasted.

It's the exact same thing with the Federal government workers. They are paid out of a pool of extortion money, and most of what they're doing is illegal according to natural law. If it bothers them that the gravy train was shut off, then they can go get an honest job like the rest of us.

Speaking of the Federal government, and setting aside what a disastrous boondoggle the F-35 project was and is, this set of combat maneuvers boggles my mind.