If this is a reference to the recent Government Shutdown, what’s the joke?

And if this isn’t a reference to the recent Government Shutdown… what’s the joke?

If that’s the actual answer, I’m going to be really disappointed.

Is she referring to the likelihood that one parent was human and the other a horse? If so, isn’t this an odd question for on magical creature to ask another? Surely she’s seen countless centaurs before.

Kind of weird, by the way, that this comic with a magical being shooting arrows appeared a few days before St. Valentine’s Dy yet apparently has nothing to do with it.