I personally like to imagine Nick Fury having a pretty big hand in ending the shutdown.
His primary motivation of course being the Avengers squabbling over what is essential and what’s not. Coffee. Yes. Arrows. Yes. Exploding arrows. Possibly. Coffee that explodes when shot with an arrow. No.
And then Tony says, “Fuck this, you’re all on my payroll now. Not you, Fury. You keep refusing to make me level 7.”