I found a list of the agency’s affected by the 2013 shutdown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_agencies_affected_by_the_United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_2013
Surely we can find $5 billion to cut out of the hundreds of billions the democrats are demanding for all these bloated departmental budgets and allocate it to the wall. Maybe permanently furlough a small percentage of the non-essential personnel?
Then the crisis will be over and we can all go home happy and the government and the congress can go back to work. Hmmmmm... on the other hand.
Reviewing the list now.
I’d start by offering to cut:
100% of the Department of Agriculture
100% of the Department of Commerce
100% of the Department of Education
100% of the Department of Energy
100% of the Department of Health and Human Services
100% of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
100% of the Food and Drug Administration
100% of the National Institutes of Health
100% of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
100% of the Department of Labor
100% of the Department of Transportation
100% of the Environmental Protection Agency
100% of the Federally funded research and development centers
100% of the General Services Administration
100% of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
100% of the National Archives
100% of the National Labor Relations Board
100% of the National Science Foundation
100% of the National Transportation Safety Board
100% of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
100% of the Office of Special Counsel
100% of the Small Business Administration
100% of the Smithsonian Institution
And I’m sure there’s plenty of room to cut in departments not listed.
If any of the functions listed above to be cut are truly needed and necessary—AND are powers expressly delegated to the United States by the Constitution—they can be greatly reduced and included in the dept of defense or interior, etc, and or returned to the states or to the people per the tenth amendment.
Now waiting for Nancy and Chuckie’s counter offer.