The Democratic Shutdown Strategy Is Having Disastrous Consequences

"Trump MASS FIRING Federal Workers In TOTAL MASSACRE" 

Source:Secular Talk with a look at the President of the United States and some of his protestors.

From Kyle Kulinski

This is the point that Kyle Kulinski made that I want you to concentrate on: 

"They already completed 48% of Project 2025 and now they're going to put it into overdrive. Now, you do need to understand though... they were going to do this anyway. They did it with Elon Musk with DOGE illegally, right. They were going to do this anyway. So Democrats were correct to put up a fight over health care for the American people. But you need to understand that that these people are legislative terrorists. And its incumbent on the media and the Democrats to explain to the American people exactly what they're doing". 

But as I wrote 3 weeks ago (and feel even stronger about it today): 

"So, under The Anti-Deficiency Act, when the government shutdowns, the executive branch, under The White House and Office of Management Budget, gets to decide who is essential and who is nonessential, when it comes to the federal workforce. Meaning, who gets to show up to work, who has to stay home, who has to show up and work for free, during the shutdown. 

In case anyone who sees this, was born last night, (and if you are able to read before you even reach 1 day old, I'm fairly impressed) Donald John Trump is currently President of the United States and Russell Vought is currently the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Do you really want these two "gentlemen" in charge of what stays open and is closed, who gets to go to work, who stays home, who has to work for free, during a government shutdown? 

Mr. Vought is 1 of the chief authors of Project 2025, which is a document that lays out how a President Trump could claim and use more executive authority, then the Constitution currently gives the President of the United States. And how they could essentially get away with that. Is this who you want in charge of the government shutdown in Washington? 

At least if Congress passed a government funding bill, (whatever you actually think of the actual bill) there are laws there that the courts can protect, requiring the executive branch to spend this amount of money, with this amount of workers in place enforcing those spending requirements. But put Trump and Vought in charge, thanks to your shutdown, there's no one left in place who could even try to hold the President and OMB accountable during a shutdown...

From The New Democrat

So look, the Kyle Kulinski's, the Ron Filipkowski's, MSNBC talk can argue all they want that "they were just going to do this anyway" when it comes to the mass Federal layoffs, firings, forcing people to work for free, etc. But what they don't understand, or won't admit, is because of Chuck Schumer's led government shutdown here, Congress has just given The White House permission and Congressional authority, to do what Kyle Kulinski says they would've done anyway. 

But if the government was fully funded right now, the The White House wouldn't legally be able to fire, layoff, and force work for no pay all these workers, people making maybe $50,000-100,000 a year, without Congressional authorization. 

Imagine being a not so bright bank robber (which is not uncommon with bank robbers) and you have the bank held up and maybe you have 10 hostages there and the police are outside telling you to release the hostages or this, that, and the other thing will happen to you and the lead bank robber says something to the effect: 

"We might as well just kill them all now. We're already going to prison for life for bank robbery and kidnapping. What more could they do to us?" 

When an intelligent person might say: "We shouldn't have done this in the first place. But now that we're here, the sooner this is over, the less trouble we'll be in and maybe we can escape from life sentences in prison". 

Not the best analogy for what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and is Democrats are doing here with their government shutdown. I'll be the first to admit that. But it makes my point. 

The smart political play here (which I argued for 3 weeks ago) was to let the House funding bill pass. Not to vote for it, but just let it come up for a vote and for it to pass. But that obviously didn't happen, so we're here where we are (to state the obvious) and plan b now would be, for the Senate Minority Leader to end his shutdown by calling for a vote on the House bill and letting it pass. Tell his members they can vote for it and there won't be any negative consequences coming from him because of that vote. But I don't see that happening, at least for a while. Senate Democrats are going to have feel some political heat from their own constituents, first.  

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