I disagree with Dick Morris.
First, it costs more to ‘temporarily’ shut down parts of the government, than it would if it continued to operate.
The whole concept of the Congress and Senate is that they are supposed to work all this stuff out BEFORE the deadline.
Shutting down the public associated parts of the government doesn’t help any body. We need to slowly phase out all the acronym agencies. Of course, that is like asking a person to cut off their foot. The politicians create more laws, then more agencies to handle those laws, because it generates more cash that can be siphoned off. The bigger the income, the easier it is to hide, and you can take more.
Plus, many of those people in those agencies OWE their position to our Senators and Congressmen, and support them financially during elections, so asking our elected officials to fire those folks , well, you might as well go bang your head against a concrete wall for a while.
If we got rid of all the siphoning, all the corruption, all of the parasites, all the unneeded laws which drive prices up unreasonably, and quit sending our money to other countries so they can buy weapons and attack us, we could probably gain a better control of the economy.
THEN we could phase out those agencies, or combine them. And fire the MULLAHS ( I mean CZARS).
Ohh PLEAAAAAAAAAASEEEEEEE