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Generally, in a shutdown, essential workers continue as normal - some of them without pay for the time being - but government employees deemed non-essential are temporarily put on unpaid leave.

It's a key ingredient for any government hoping that economic growth will pay for its other spending commitments - on heath, defence and welfare.

The sweetener for tourists is that for the €17.50 they get admission to two things they currently have to pay for separately anyway – entry to the museum and to the inside of the windmills.

Reeves has said repeatedly her self-imposed rules on borrowing to pay for public services are "non-negotiable".

“Every day I get up and I think, the American people are paying for this, should they?” she recently said.