Posted on 01/13/2019 6:39:10 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Services typically suspended during government shutdowns have continued to operate under the Trump administration, with insiders pointing to acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought as the reason why.
Agencies impacted by government shutdowns are forced to severely cut back on operations, suspend services and often send workers home without pay. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has been using creative solutions to blunt the burden, according to a senior administration official and several prominent Republicans.
Vought joined the OMB in early 2018 and assumed the role of acting director Jan. 3 after Director Mick Mulvaney became President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff.
“My marching orders from Russ is to make this shutdown as painless as possible,” a senior administration official, who asked to talk on background so they could speak frankly, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. (RELATED: Federal Workers Will Get Holiday Paychecks Even If Government Shuts Down)
The response by the Trump administration has differed greatly from that of the previous administration during the 2013 shutdown.
“What the marching orders in the last administration were was to weaponize the shutdown, to make it as painful as possible,” the official continued. “They did things as a policy matter, to not keep programs running, to not keep services running, to not have federal workers delivering services as a policy matter and as a political matter.”
The Republican-led House passed a stopgap funding bill Dec. 20 that included appropriations to construct a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. However, with a 51-seat majority, Senate Republicans fell short of the necessary 60 votes needed to send it to Trump’s desk for his signature. Consequently, a partial government shutdown has been in effect since funding expired Dec. 21.
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SNAP benefits for February are going out early - after that, who knows; Could be ‘The Donald’ is expecting the Gov’t employees to pressure Congressmen to reopen the Gov’t. Trump seems to managing it the opposite of Obama. He’s calling in employees to process some home loan stuff, etc.
“What the marching orders in the last administration were was to weaponize the shutdown, to make it as painful as possible,” the official continued. “They did things as a policy matter, to not keep programs running, to not keep services running, to not have federal workers delivering services as a policy matter and as a political matter.”
The government will take in just much revenue when it’s shut down as When it’s not. She’s still collecting taxes.
Obama was fighting with a republican Congress so he made it as painful as possible. He spent more that normal daily operation costs to close some places. He spent money to rent barricades. The moron even put red cones in roadside parking places near Mount Rushmore. The media cooperated in blaming congress for this in order to pressure the Repubs.
Trump is fighting a leftist/globalist congress. Trump is making it as painless as possible for everyday people. (who mostly don’t even notice the Government is closed) So the media hypes the pain Trump is “causing”.
I read the other day that the summer lunch program for kids would run out of money by the end of January.
The...summer...lunch program.
Obama was a destructive force in our nation.
The ungrateful letch put race relations back decades with this antics focusiung on Martin and Brown.
His comments instructing Leftists to “bring a gun” to public disturbances was ‘inciting’.
His closure of veterans monuments and the national parks was just juvenile and asinine.
This guy deserves so many footnotes on his disgusting years as our pretend president.
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