Since his swearing in, Trump has been pursuing plans laid out in Project 2025 to dramatically expand presidential power and reduce the size of the federal workforce. They include efforts like the Department of Government Efficiency and budget rescission packages, which have led to billions of dollars being stalled, scrapped or withheld by the administration so far this year.
They are now using the shutdown to accelerate their progress.
He’s a useful idiot who is installing a tyrannical authoritarian technofacist pedofile state our children and grandchildren will be enslaved by for the foreseeable future.