Never going to happen in our lifetimes, never. One doesn't shoot oneself in the foot.

As to Congress, it would require a Constitutional amendment to be legal.

Their Congressional and presidential pay is far from their main source of income.

Not a good idea. The rich legislators won't care, and the more representative of us, the non-rich, will suffer. A better approach is to ban shut downs.

My guess is that the House will pass it but the Senate won’t

A good first step, if it gets passed. However I think it would be insufficient motivation since most of our lawmakers are wealthy and wouldn't be missing any meals.

A better proposal would be to not only withhold the president's and congress' pay, but steep compounding fines for every day there is no budget. When they eventually go broke, they get incarcerated at their desk so they still can vote on a new budget. (You know, since that is literally their fucking job!)

And by the way, those fines do not get returned to them, once the impasse is over. Also by steep compounding, I mean that the richest 100 people on earth pooling their money, would be broke in a week.

A pipe dream, I know. But I think it provides the right incentive.

Does anyone actually think that withholding gubment pay from millionaires would have any affect/effect what-so-ever on their decision making?
Perhaps a bipartisan bill preventing the gubment from EVER being shut down would end this fiasco for good.

Let's see how important this wall is to tRump. Is he willing to put his money where his big, critical and very loud mouth is?

Awesome - that bastard McConnell will try to squash it. Greedy SOB.

I support it