If he wouldn’t sign a budget or CR then only the critical spending would get done, which would actually accomplish what a lot of us would like.
Only trouble is we need to still fund the military.
Would the CIA and NSA still be funded? Maybe this would be a way to finally just get rid of the Deep State...
We are being invaded now so what good is our military?
under a CR “emergency functions” continue. The President has a lot of discretion in determining what constitutes an emergency function. E.g. the Pres can shut down large swaths of useless bureaucracy while keeping field intel and operating military forces running. Oh and “protecting” open natural land from the citizenry, e.g. closing national parks and monuments is not an emergency function.