Trump, cronies won’t suffer in a shutdown
Soon after prospective DOGE co-administrator Elon Musk recommended the House not approve Speaker Johnson’s bipartisan budget, President-elect Trump echoed that opinion. The reasons were that Democrats had slipped waste into the bill.
In 2018 Trump encouraged the last shutdown. It affected a hundred federal agencies, thousands of their employees, millions of Americans dependent upon federal programs and cost the country billions of dollars — by far the most expensive and hurtful government shutdown ever.
Trump has a history of shutting down businesses he once ran. Trump Airlines? Trump Wines? Vodka? Steaks? Trump University? Trump Taj Mahal? And many more. It makes one think, what’s next?
He doesn’t appreciate that government is not business.