Federal websites will shut down with the government

Well, of course they will. Cost has no relevance, here. It's all about cutting off our noses to spite our faces. "Fine, you're going to shut us down? We're going to chop the most publicly noticeable and sympathetic things we can and make a big deal about it!"

You know, for all couple of weeks that it's shut down, before we go back to business as usual blowing the taxpayers money and using our positions to benefit from lobbyists, like the last time.