Government Shutdown

[robkelk]

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201..._trap.html

There's no way in HELL this would actually work, but I do know some right-wing Americans who WANT this to happen.

I noticed this quote from the "unidentified senior Trump official" and decided immediately not to bother wasting time reading the entire piece:

Most of my career colleagues actively work against the president's agenda. This means I typically spend about 15 percent of my time on the president's agenda and 85 percent of my time trying to stop sabotage, and we have no power to get rid of them.

Whoever wrote that either misunderstands who civil servants work for, or wants everyone else to believe a falsehood.

The civil service does not work for the current occupant of the Oval Office, or 10 Downing, or 24 Sussex, or whatever the equivalent is in your country. The civil service works for the sovereign - and in the USA, the sovereign is The People. If the current occupant of the Oval Office wants something done that will damage The People, it is the USA's civil service's duty to deny that request, or to work around it if it cannot be denied.

And the last few elections in the USA have made it quite clear that The People do not currently speak with one voice.

If Trump can't handle being told "no", then he should never have gone into politics in the first place.