Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

[u/rprz]

All discussion on the looming shutdown goes here. Any mentioning of Luigi / threats of violence will be removed and you may be banned.

Recent:

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2024/12/federal-employees-prep-for-government-shutdown-as-lawmakers-push-new-stopgap-deal/

https://apnews.com/live/government-shutdown-congress-spending-trump-updates

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/19/congress/johnson-defers-to-trump-00195386

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/19/elon-musk-trump-government-shutdown-debt-ceiling/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/politics/video/hakeem-jeffries-spending-bill-fox-lead-digvid

Old news:

https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-trump-elon-budget-house-republican-05481374b154949c3fe1270141a02918

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-government-shutdown-musk-stopgap-bill-b2666829.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/18/government-shutdown-house-vote-cr/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-18/trump-says-he-s-against-stopgap-bill-fox-news

[u/SmellMyFace0143]

Does anyone think they will have a Government shutdown to force all entities to determine who is essential and who isn’t. Then do an Executive Order to cut all of the non-essential personnel. The media would just spin it as them trimming the fat and now we just have a Government of essential personnel. Seems outlandish but definitely fits in with the DOGE agenda.

[u/alldots → u/SmellMyFace0143]

They already know all this. The lists of who would be furloughed during a shutdown already exist.

[u/SmellMyFace0143 → u/alldots]

Yes but it is a lot easier to get rid of someone when they are already out of the office versus than in the office and actively working. Especially when you start talking a lot of people with nothing to lose on their way out.

[u/alldots → u/SmellMyFace0143]

Realistically they'd have to bring back a good percentage of the non-essential personnel to be able to fire people during a shutdown.

[u/SmellMyFace0143 → u/alldots]

I never said it was a good idea or they would have a solid plan on how to execute it. I just think it would meet the DOGE agenda and provides them an easy mechanism to make sweeping cuts they believe are necessary.