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Trump sees 'unprecedented opportunity' to cut government during shutdown
- The federal government shutdown entered its second day on Thursday after Congress failed to pass a funding resolution by the Sept. 30 deadline.
- The shutdown resulted from a Senate failure to approve a Republican-backed stopgap funding bill, with Democrats opposing it over healthcare subsidy extensions.
- President Trump met with OMB Director Russ Vought, a key figure in the Project 2025 plan, to discuss which 'Democrat agencies' to cut, seeking temporary or permanent reductions.
- Trump called the shutdown an "unprecedented opportunity" to enact massive federal cuts, while the Congressional Budget Office estimated 750,000 furloughed workers and warned of $15 billion weekly GDP losses.
- The shutdown’s persistence raises economic risks, prompts imminent federal layoffs, and signals a partisan impasse with unclear resolution timing and negotiations stalled.
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Government Shutdown Gives Trump Yet Another Opportunity to Expand His Power
As crucial services grind to a halt and federal workers go without pay, Donald Trump is using the ongoing government shutdown to do what he does best: grab more power. Last week, as the shutdown loomed, Trump gloated that his administration would use it as an excuse to shutter “Democrat agencies,” whatever that means. It was, the MAGA leader said, an “unprecedented opportunity” that had been… Source
The GOP says it’s winning the shutdown. Some fear President Trump’s funding cuts could change that.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has embraced the federal shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” to slash spending and shrink government, but new rounds of targeted spending cuts from the White House aimed at Democratic states and priorities are raising concerns among Republicans that they may be at risk of ceding their political advantage. Republicans in Congress believe they hold the upper hand in four-day-old stalemate, as Democrats vo…
Is The Trump Administration Putting Party over Principle in Government Shutdown Cuts? - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
Some critics of government overreach have regularly welcomed United States government shutdowns, arguing that they provide relief — if only temporarily — from spending and bossing around by government that threatens both freedom and prosperity. For them, the announcement from the Donald Trump administration that the government shutdown that started this week could lead to the cancelation of billions of dollars in spending on “clean energy” autho…
US government agencies shut down on Wednesday over a budget dispute, with President Donald Trump threatening to slash federal agencies.
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