How does the United States Government feel about Bitcoin?
Are you kidding? They are all in too deep shit right now to hate bitcoins. May be some of them have fun mining on unpaid vacation.
Please send me my bitcoin here: 1Am8TJ4XihJ9S7kBBSiSHqBX1UUxHqKZCC
EDIT: I assume you read some news besides bitcointalk, and know something about US government shutdown.