We can only hope so. There is no doubt that the federal bureaucracy - including the workforce - is both bloated and, as an institution, working at odds with any effort to reign in governmental power (or even slow down the seemingly exponential growth of same). No one but Trump would even consider USING THE FEDERAL "SHUTDOWN" AS A TROJAN HORSE TO RIGHT-SIZE THE BUREAUCRACY, but even by Trumpian standards that would be an incredibly ballsy move.
We can only hope so. There is no doubt that the federal bureaucracy – including the workforce – is both bloated and, as an institution, working at odds with any effort to reign in governmental power (or even slow down the seemingly exponential growth of same). No one but Trump would even consider USING THE FEDERAL “SHUTDOWN” AS A TROJAN HORSE TO RIGHT-SIZE THE BUREAUCRACY, but even by Trumpian standards that would be an incredibly ballsy move.