The dominoes are starting to fall. First the cities, then the states.
The problem is that government's sheer size is unsustainable by taxes on the private sector. I remember seeing an economic analysis that said the practical limit of government's size (or cost) is about 19% of the total gross national product; we're well above that now.
And much of it is not really needed; I was living in Minnesota a couple of decades ago when most unionized state workers went on strike.
Virtually nobody noticed outside of some college students who had longer lines to stand in during registration. Lights and water stayed on, police, firefighters, and paramedics kept working, roads were repaired, planes continued to fly, garbage was picked up . . .
This said
a lot about how much of government is really essential.