Wade Miller

And I don't think that they really understood –

uh... the mindset of the trump administration towards woke waste uh... woke weaponizing wasteful government uh... because essentially on september thirtieth october first there is no appropriation in place so you know in past shutdowns presidents have decided to furlough but there's no requirement to furlough that the the the trump administration can instead just start firing off large-scale

Well, yes, if there's no appropriation in place, then the president of the United States has a significant amount of authority to eliminate spending to comport with the lack of that appropriation, minus security, things that are lifesaving, national defense.

But otherwise, the president has a broad amount of authority.

And if the president authorizes OMB Director Russ Vogt

to put that plan in place, they can take a wrecking ball to a lot of these bureaucracies that are unnecessary and are just elevating the debt, serving no public purpose.

So in that respect, just legally and statutorily, I don't understand what the Democrats are thinking, and I'm kind of glad they're this inept.

Rust is one of the most loyal people I have ever met, and he truly believes that his job is to serve the interests of the president, not his own agenda.

So if Rust's vote is out there talking about this, that tells me it's almost a certainty that the White House has approved this.

It would be extremely unlikely for Rust to ever do anything that he didn't think the president would support or had authorized.

So that tells me that this is a very likely possibility.

outcome should a shutdown occur.

And look, the left can throw a hissy fit and say they're going to sue.

But I don't understand from a legal perspective how they would be able to stop in a shutdown where there's no appropriation in place, the firing of bureaucracies and bureaucrats that are unnecessary in a government shutdown scenario that have nothing to do with national defense, life-saving measures or security apparatuses.

I don't.

But there's a lot of bureaucracies out there that I know that the president and other cabinet secretaries.

And remember, this is not just for us to vote.

This would be all cabinet secretaries tasked with identifying weaponized and wasteful bureaucracies within their areas of responsibility.

So it would be all hands on deck effort to identify.

So my guess is it would be significant.