“One of our sons worked for the National Park Service during that long period when the government shut down and there were people in dire straits,” Amantha Moore said. But she said she struggles to square the tradeoff between fighting for the health subsidies and a shutdown that is forcing many federal workers to go without pay. How the shutdown could shape the midterms This purple stretch of Atlanta suburbs will be a key battleground in next year’s midterms, when Democratic Sen.