One thing he should definitely do is highlight how many “non-essential” employees the government has.
The Republican’s shut down certainly caused their defeat in all following elections. /s/
I wan DJT to announce, at the 11th hr. that things are going to be done much as they are in the private sector:
Gov’t employees who are laid off as a result of a gov’t shutdown can file for unemployment checks. Just as employees of private employers do. There should be NO back pay in full for laid off federal employees.
Period.
Let the Dems crap a brick at that point.
“... Should Trump Make It As Painless As Possible?....”
YES! He should prove to the public that cutting government agencies by 1/4 to 1/3 will not be a problem. He should use this budget battle to weed out civil servants that want empires more than responsive government.
Trump is going run run circles around the establishment here.
He’ll either get what he wants in a budget or not sign it. If he doesn’t sign, then the gov’t “shuts down”... which allows him to decide what’s essential and what’s not... and how any money is spent.
lololololololol
Then he can keep services running that people like - and make non-essential anything he chooses.
hahahahahaha!!!!
Evidence? The link in the article shows only that "Americans said the GOP was responsible [for the shutdown] over Democrats." That Americans disliked the GOP shutdown is assumed rather than shown. I'd liked to have seen a survey asking, "How much effect has the partial federal shutdown had on your everyday life?" Bet even a lot of low-information Americans would have stopped and realized the answer was, little or none.
Benson’s article dovetails nicely with this article:
Trump Wins YUGE in a Government Shutdown
American Spectator ^ | April 24, 2017, 12:04 am | LARRY SCHWEIKART
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3546739/posts
Obama already despised most of the American people so punishing and humiliating us was easy. He obviously had an efficient staff of hard core progressives who had the Park Service and other agencies set to go. It is still breathtaking to look at those pictures of armed park service employees blocking sidewalks and steps to open air monuments and laying blockades at highway pullovers so people couldn’t stop to take pictures of sites like Rushmore!!! And using armed guards holding tourists as virtual,hostages inside the lodge at Yellowstone so they couldn’t walk outside to see the view!!! Or even look out the windows!!!
I still marvel that so many Americans voted for and adored that man and his successors who subscribe to the same disdain and outright hatred of the general public.
Back to the question- no way do,I see Trump doing this but some scuzzy holdovers from the obama regime might try to mandate this crap in their mini fiefdoms
Trump should make it painless as possible and fhen keep it closed! Trump could gon on forever only keeping open what he wanted and the few visible items the public (non government people) sees or cares about.
The filibuster should be eliminated. If republicans don’t do it now, democrats will surely eliminate it once they return to Senate majority. Comity has ended, it is now only about majority rule. Let’s get it done.
Should Trump Make It As Painless As Possible? Won’t matter, the press will only report on the ‘victims’.
So nothing has changed in Congress. The same last-minute stop-gap closed-door maneuverings of a handful of the Uniparty. Let's see Trump stand firm against this year's Government Shutdown Kabuki Theater.
Trump should use it as an opportunity to shut down departments, agencies, and programs that he wanted to shut down anyway.
We raised 3.3 trillion last year. We spent 3.8. We had a 500 billion dollar deficit, so cut 14% of spending and we are living within the revenues we take in.
Then raising the debt ceiling is irrelevant.
It won’t be the Democrats, it’ll be the GOPe, never Trumpers, who turn up their noses at the American people.
The same jackwagons that gave Barry Everything he wanted , and more.
If this happens. I hope he turns the management of all federal managed lands over to the states. That is-the USFS. Park Service, BLM and National Monuments.
The only area he can NOT turn back to the states is in DC.
Shut down the damn government and clean house once and for all. This country would get by very nicely with 1/2 of the current work force.
What would be ideal is to somehow rid ourselves of the public employee union under this. Until we can get that destroyed the american people are at a huge disadvantage.
One can dream.
FR’s LS has another way of looking at a government shutdown. Thanks LS..
Trump Wins YUGE in a Government Shutdown
American Spectator ^ | April 24, 2017, 12:04 am | LARRY SCHWEIKART
Posted on 4/23/2017, 11:51:36 PM by Behind Liberal Lines
We’re looking at a possible government shutdown next Saturday, and that’s got some conservatives nervous. They shouldn’t be. Admittedly, past government shutdowns — or threats of shutdowns — have worked against conservatives. With Trump, however, it would likely be a different story....
even a partial shutdown plays precisely into the Trump agenda and his campaign promises of draining the swamp. Trump’s base, as well as “swing voters” who are fed up with out of control spending, would, of course, be cheered by such a move. Moreover, such a shutdown plays into Trump’s hands by giving him every excuse to slash funding to “sanctuary cities,” to bloated university programs, to global warming science grants, and on and on. Social Security checks will continue, the military will be funded, and necessary services will hum along while grants to study the sex life of the fruit bat will not. Deep State bureaucrats who so depend on the federal government for their very existence would be the ones most hurt. In short, Trump can not only make even a partial shutdown look like the Democrats’ fault but shield many of the (normally) loudest voices from the pain.
More important, every minute the bloated government is shut down reinforces the perception of Trump as a businessman who cuts the fat, extracts more efficiency, and makes the U.S. government more like a business. Unlike the Clinton/Gingrich shutdown battle, the control over what sectors of the government get their money is in the hands of a Republican president, not a Democrat who held up funds on the most visible and sympathetic programs. Trump would relish starving all the non-essential offices like PBS and NPR or global-warming science grants.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3546739/posts
This is the lunacy we have faced, breathing the same air with `rats:
http://www.climatedepot.com/2017/01/17/days-before-trump-takes-office-obama-gives-500-million-to-un-green-climate-fund/
“Days before Trump takes office, Obama gives another $500 million to UN Green Climate Fund”
Maximum Leader Barry writes a couple checks on the US Treasury giving the UN a cool billion to fight a non-existent problem somewhere else: global warming in 3rd world countries. (All the while spending money hand-over-fist importing 3rd worlders into America as fast as he could.)
President Trump has to fight like a tiger for the same amount in order to do his job and secure the states from foreign invasion, while his party sits by with their thumbs up their butts.