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.”
My take on it, they’re not going to just layoff people because there is a shutdown. They want to lay all of these people off eventually regardless of funding the government.
If they’re going to lay them off either way, then it’s not really a threat nor is it part of the budget discussions. They’ve played their hand and it doesn’t really shift the discussion.
They’re also ignoring the limits of their powers, so shutting down won’t give them any more powers than they’ve been taking either.
And writing about giving the administration “talking points” is even dumber. Since they lie about everything being the left’s fault already anyway.