Question about the Government's shutdown on leases.
A friend of mine provides nightly janitorial services for a commercial property management company, and was told by that company that their tenant, the IRS, is not going to pay rent for the period of the shutdown.  In turn the property manager asked my friend to discount the invoice to account for the shutdown.

He didn't render services during the shutdown period, so he's not taking a loss in that regard.  But it spurred the conversation of how the IRS could not pay for those days.  I thought it sounded fishy.  Is this a clause in government leases?  I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but I wonder if this was just a needless excuse to discount for those days.

We also discussed how that's the property managers risk to mitigate, if true, and depending on my friend's contract with the property manager he'd likely not have to discount the invoice.  Then he'd have to way the decision of pushing back vs. losing the contract at renewal.

Thanks for any comments!

TLD; Commercial property manager said IRS will not pay rent for the period covering the shutdown.  Does that sound right?
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