I can jump in here as I've been a contractor, my wife is still a contractor and back-pay for contractors doesn't typically happen (Tim Kaine I believe introduc

I can jump in here as I've been a contractor, my wife is still a contractor and back-pay for contractors doesn't typically happen (Tim Kaine I believe introduced a bill including contractors). It could but it probably wont. On the flip side, different contracting agencies handle things differently. Some will let you take Leave and go in the hole while others will subsidies the shutdown for you. As always it's complicated, but it's a good assumption that someone in the contracting chain is losing money.