Andy Biggs

And they did it within 45 days, which the law allows.

And, uh, the next thing that you have going here is you, you, you have this, um, the narrative itself and, uh, that allows the president to actually come in and actually start reducing, uh, the size and scope of the bureaucracy.

So you have, you have literally.

hundreds of thousands of people who've been designated by their agencies to be non-essential.

That is to say they're unnecessary.

We don't need you to keep the government open.

We don't need you.

It is as if someone is saying in British terms, you're redundant.

We just simply don't need you anymore.

That allows the president to come in and say,

And Russ Volt said yesterday he's going to come in and they're going to start riffing people.

And it can't be a riff and then restore, right?

This has to be serious things.

And you look at them, you say, you really are redundant.

And what that happens, it doesn't just take away the personnel.

It actually defangs people.

the agencies themselves so that the agencies cannot continue to abuse the American people because they just don't have the people to abuse the American people.

And this is really big stuff.

It also is a change in direction fundamentally.

And we thank the Democrats because they walked right into this.