It's looking like the best shutdown ever!
The Vought memo orders agencies to identify all programs that depend on discretionary funding (which lapses next week) and don’t align with the president’s priorities. Employees who administer those disfavored programs or projects won’t be furloughed. They will be fired.
For small-government advocates, the beauty of this is its reset potential. When government reopens, the Trump team will hire back the fewest possible statutorily required employees at programs it already wanted to cut. For a starter list, see the more than 45 Mr. Trump’s recent budget asked Congress to eliminate—among them the Economic Development Administration, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Legal Services Corp. And then there’s the Education Department.
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