Reply to Government Shutdown - September, 2025 Editiion

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "Government Shutdown - September, 2025 Editiion"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why did he need the excuse of a shutdown to layoff?
Couldn't he do the same layoffs when there was no shutdown?
[/quote]

Keep up. The layoffs were implied in the bill that couldn't be passed, which is an important reason why the Democrats couldn't vote for it. Implied, because the bill calls for staggering cuts in funding to federal agencies, so enormous that they cannot be implemented without losing a major portion of the workforce.

[/quote]

Me again. If the White House does layoffs during the shutdown, they own them entirely, and will carry 100% of the blame. The Democrats are OK with that, because the alternative was allowing the bill to pass, and therefore shouldering a portion of the blame.

The White House calculus, on the other hand, was to try to threaten Democrats with these layoffs, which hurt feds in the most cruel way... but it under-estimated the desperation of the other side. Democrats have nothing to lose now. They need to push the White House into doing really stupid things, so the American public realizes that Trump is not on their side.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics