“Commissary employees would continue to work and are not subject to furlough during this time frame,” Defense Commissary Agency officials said. These commissaries are “categorized as remote/austere U.S. locations based on remoteness and availability of other sources of food,” he said. A potential government shutdown has troops turning to social media to voice their concerns over missed or delayed paychecks come February if Congress doesn’t approve funding. In the fall, some members of Congress had introduced stand-alone bills specific to military pay. Task & Purpose previously reported that the shutdown not only causes troops to miss paychecks but also supposedly delays the Pentagon’s reporting on annual suicide statistics.