This is the thirteenth day of the federal government shutdown, and not only is it not the top news story as the week begins — hostages getting released and the prospect of something resembling peace in the Middle East will do that — there are no indications that either side in Washington is eager to start up negotiations again.

At the heart of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer’s strategy was the notion that once the shutdown started, Americans – and in particular, Republican constituent groups — would feel the inconvenience of a closed government and pressure the Trump administration and Republican senators and representatives to make concessions to the Democrats. And along the way, grassroots progressives who think Schumer has all the firmness of Play-Doh will be impressed with how much the New York Democrat is willing to “fight.”

Are there disruptions to American life because of the shutdown? Sure, here and there. The Smithsonian museums are closed. The monthly jobs report for September wasn’t released. National parks are remaining open, but they’re effectively unsupervised:

Reports of illegal BASE jumping, unauthorized camping and unpermitted climbing in Yosemite National Park have reignited warnings from current and former park officials to close the park during the ongoing federal government shutdown.

“This is exactly what we warned about,” Emily Thompson, executive director of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, said in a statement Friday. “And this is why national parks need to be closed until the government re-opens. This shutdown is making an already bad situation at national parks and public lands far worse. The situation is dangerous and reckless for our parks, public lands, and the visitors who love them.”

…With most Yosemite staff furloughed, BASE jumpers have been spotted leaping off El Capitan in broad daylight — a practice banned for decades.

But in much in America, life goes on with minimal or no noticeable disruption. But you know who is feeling the pain from the shutdown? Federal government workers.

While most civilian federal employees are expected to get their paychecks sometime in the next couple days, they’ll only take home the pay they earned up until the shutdown began. Regardless of whether they are excepted or furloughed, federal employees will not be paid for any days worked between Oct. 1 and Oct. 4 — the final few days of the most recent two-week pay period.

It’s also the last paycheck excepted and furloughed employees will receive until the government shutdown ends. The first fully missed paycheck, if the shutdown continues, will be for the pay period of Oct. 5 through Oct. 18. Only federal employees who are considered “exempt” from the shutdown will continue to be paid as usual.

So we’re left with the big question that was glaringly obvious before the shutdown began: how much financial hardship are federal workers — an overwhelmingly Democratic-voting constituency — willing to endure so that Schumer and Senate Democrats can appear to be fighters against the administration?

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a clean continuing resolution back on September 19. The House is in recess until October 19. The Senate is  back in session tomorrow. If government shutdowns are such terrible things… why doesn’t anyone seem to be in any rush to get a funding bill passed to end it?

As my fellow Washington Post columnist Matt Bai observes, “All anyone is likely to take away from this fiasco — especially if it drags on for weeks or even months and life otherwise goes on pretty much as usual — is that a paralyzed Congress can’t function, government is hopelessly unreliable and federal programs are mostly expendable. In other words: that Trump is right to want to smash all of it to pieces.” No one ever gets a serious “win” out of a government shutdown fight, and yet Washington’s elected officials keep getting into these fights, convinced this time everything will turn out differently.