You wanna play chess with the president?
Welp...
The Democrats are pushing against a continuing resolution, which means they're essentially pushing for a government shut down.
And now the Trump admin is going to play some hardball.
The White House budget office is telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings in the event of a government shutdown - an apparent threat by the Trump administration amid a standoff with congressional Democrats over federal funding.
The directive, outlined in an Office of Management and Budget memo to agencies and obtained by CNN, represents a sharp break from the government's handling of past shutdown scenarios.
This is really amazing stuff.
Typically a government shut down sends people home for a few weeks, shuts down parks, pauses paychecks for the military, etc.
And now Trump is saying that he's just going to start firing bureaucrats if the Democrats don't pass the CR.
I never knew I was voting for this and it's like extra credit!
In the memo, OMB directs agencies to identify programs whose funds will lapse if Congress fails to meet the September 30 funding deadline and that have no alternative source of funding. Those programs should then be targeted for sweeping reductions in force that could permanently eliminate jobs that are deemed 'not consistent' with President Donald Trump's priorities.
'We remain hopeful that Democrats in Congress will not trigger a shutdown and the steps outlined above will not be necessary,' OMB wrote in the memo.
Democrats either have to agree with Trump's funding goals, or end up draining their swamp through their inaction.
This is going to hit them where it hurts.
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