Republicans have also failed to cut elements of government that are evidently invisible to all but those who work at those agencies. If Republicans were smart, they would use this imperceptible shutdown to lay the groundwork for a spending fight during the debt ceiling deadline next year.
Republicans are not actually for small government. It's nothing more than a talking point. Any opportunity they've had to reduce the size and scope of government has been wasted. In my memory this has gone back to Reagan's promise of eliminating the Departments of Education and Energy. (youtube.com) I'm sure we have older Poal users, who can remember examples prior to that.
This makes me sad. Always a lot of talk about cutting spending, but it's never true.
They couldn't even make good on funding the wall, or a full repeal of Obamacare when they controlled the Senate and Presidency. They are a joke and that's why Trump was elected over their establishment favorites.
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