And I’m glad. They tried to pull the same bs they do every year and put up a pork laden funding bill at the last minute under the guise of avoiding a government shutdown. Fortunately there is a new sheriff in town and he and his posse aren’t going to play by the rules of the swamp.

As soon as this crap bill, all 1500+ pages of it, were released, Trump and Elon and Vivek made it clear that the bill was unacceptable and that any Republican who voted for it would be primaried, suddenly the bill got pulled. We finally have an incoming administration that isn’t part of the swamp and is more than willing to play hardball. And fortunately the swamp rats know that they mean what they say.

I don’t know what will happen now but if it takes a government shutdown to eliminate all the pork, most of which is Dems wish lists, so be it. As we’ve learned in the past, most of us will not even notice that it happens. Social security checks will still go out along with Medicare benefits and government pensions and the military will still be on duty. The federal employees will eventually get paid and most of them won’t be working anyway. The one good thing that used to come out of a shutdown was a decrease in traffic but since most federal employees aren’t going into the office now, that benefit won’t occur. (BTW my agency had what’s called no year money, meaning that we didn’t have to spend every penny appropriated by the end of the fiscal year for which it was allocated. We always had leftover money that would carry us for several months, and it was even crazier in the latter part of my tenure because we got our money from fees on licensees and not from the Treasury.)

And I think that in the present day where most people get their news from outlets other than the mainstream media, the blame will be placed on the Dems. The majority of the country voted for Trump and against this constant waste and fraud in the federal government and we won’t blame Trump for doing what we elected him to do. I believe that the Dems are way out over their skis and refusing to accept that they just got their asses handed to them, but they will learn.