Trump’s Office of Management and Budget under Russell Vought has moved with more executive authority over spending, which is typically left to Congress. The administration took steps to cancel foreign aid and asserted power to withhold billions of domestic spending.
“I would expect this shutdown to look different than any other shutdown,” said Joshua Sewell, Taxpayers for Common Sense director of research and policy. He said he expects that the Trump team’s actions would be guided by what they believe achieves the most for them politically.
Trump could use a shutdown to dismantle government functions, wrote Max Stier, chief of executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit focused on improving the federal government.
If lawmakers can’t reach a deal, Stier wrote, Trump and Vought “will have enormous latitude to determine which services, programs, and employees can be sidelined, decisions that could go far beyond what has occurred during past shutdowns.”
Jesus fucking Christ, stop trying to come up with more terrible ideas why the democrats should capitulate. What the actual fuck. They must not knuckle under for ANY reason. You used to be better than this, NPR.
That’s exactly how this reads.
An attempt to goad the Dems into caving.
Transparent as fuck. They need to hold strong.
“Trump could use a shutdown to dismantle government functions” He already did that. We had this discussion already the last time, before Schumer and the rest folded. Then he did more of it after they folded. Why is this being trotted out as a threat again?
Because it’s the excuse for not using the filibuster they refused to get rid of for the last two congressional majorities on the grounds that they need it to block republicans when democrats are in the minority.
To get low info voters to think keeping the gov open is a good idea.
Exactly.
The awful shit is going to be awful either way, but one way is democrats helping them be awful.
Except he’s going to do it anyway. It’s never “Give me what I want or I’ll hurt you” with Trump. It’s always “AND I’ll hurt you.”. That’s why negotiating with him is worthless.
Trump dismantled USAID and it’s effectively toast even though Congress is the only group legally allowed to end it. This is shit he would’ve done anyway on a different time schedule. Here’s hoping he bites off more than he can chew and loses another 5% of his base.
Doesn’t the Regime already do this via Executive Order which may or may not be challenged later? Why would they need a ahutdown?
Congress loves to hold themselves hostage at the sake of federal workers and the American people. They get paid either way, go on vacation. May even give themselves a raise.
Isn’t this the same excuse they used the last time they gave him everything he wanted, without a fight? Are we doing it again, then?
Only if somebody doesn’t take this as an opportunity to assassinate him.
For the betterment of the nation, of course
The government has been in shutdown for months.
It’s a lose/lose situation, we know.
Is a shutdown each year now a regular thing in USA? Sounds like lawmakers should legislate some budget protections.
They have legislated various protections. But it always comes down to two parties split about evenly yet needing 60% to pass…… and since it became ok to shut down the government there’s no longer an incentive to negotiate bipartisan solutions
It’s another symptom of the dysfunction of Congress; they can’t get 60 senators to agree on a long-term funding bill.
Yeah the republicans have realized that they can demand anything they want to be part of the budget so every year we have a government shutdown then lose some rights to get it up again
Congress hasn’t passed a full budget since 1996.
That made sense in the spring and is one of the reasons I was for not shutting it down then. would have just played into what he was doing. He already tore everything up though and hes not hard to read. He don’t want it. Im fine with shutdown this go round.
I think the plan is to force a shutdown, then seize power saying that the legislature “can’t run the country” so trump has to do it
He will have power to decide who to pay but he will be powerless to the backlash from constituents. People are already pissed at him
Fuck off with the censoring.
Fuck off with your lack of sense of humour.
