The Partial Shutdown Has Proven the Need to Make it Permanent – Top 3 Takeaways, October 8th, 2025
Takeaway #1: Problem Solved
Welcome to the eighth day of the partial government shutdown. Also known as the eighth consecutive day that there’s been zero impact on your life from the partial government shutdown resulting in 34% of the federal government not operating. At this point not only are Democrats playing into President Trump’s hands by having forced this partial shutdown through the senate filibuster, but it increasingly seems like they’re playing into his hand by illustrating how we could immediately cut about the third of the size of the federal government permanently. Consider this. Total federal government spending for the current year is $6.75 trillion, with the federal deficit checking in at just over $1.9 trillion. Let's say just for drill, that we permanently cut 34% of the federal government. Know what we’d have (in addition to more freedom financially and otherwise)? An end to budget deficits. In the most recently completed fiscal year, which ended in September, if 34% of the federal government had not been in place, with all other dynamics the same, there would have been an approximate $300 billion surplus. Now this isn’t meant as a literal exercise, because the amount of spending across the currently impacted agencies may not necessarily add up to 34% of total federal spending, also government spending does effect overall economic growth and the effects may result in lower GDP temporarily, and also, it’s unrealistic that every position that’s currently furloughed could simply be ended...for example there’s currently no one working at the IRS, and would I like to abolish the IRS? Yes, but we’d better put a new system in place first or else we’ll likely have bigger revenue problems going forward than we had before. Something tells me the “honor system” for paying taxes wouldn’t work out so well. But the point remains. Effectively over a third of the federal government can be gone for a week without almost anyone knowing about anything changing. What would you rather have, the federal government back to full bloat, or a budget surplus which would mean an end to our country’s debt and deficit problems, and eventually lower taxes, if handled responsibly? As I was saying yesterday...it’s a choice. It was a choice for the federal government to become ridiculously bloated and run multitrillion dollar budget deficits that lead to higher inflation and interest rates. It’s a choice to keep it bloated and to deal with higher than needed inflation, interest rates and taxes. A permanent end to over a third of the federal government would be a massive problem solved and far greater quality of life for all but the directly impacted federal government employees and a smattering of businesses that feed off K Street crony capitalism.
Takeaway #2: Speaking of the swamp... There’s a diseased temple in it too!
Swamps are notoriously difficult to navigate and are fraught with danger. For that reason, it’s not a surprise that there are new discoveries being made within the D.C. swamp. It’s not just furloughed non-essential government employees in D.C. today. There are fewer ‘essential’ creatures in it today as well. In addition to the furloughed federal government employees, Kash Patel sent an undisclosed number of FBI agents packing on Tuesday as well. Following the revelation that the FBI under the Biden administration spied on eight Republican senators, accessing their personal cell phones to do so, FBI Director Kash Patel had this to say while addressing the firing of agents involved in the political targeting campaign: We are cleaning up a diseased temple three decades in the making — identifying the rot, removing those who weaponized law enforcement for political purposes and those who do not meet the standards of this mission while restoring integrity to the FBI. I promised reform, and I intend to deliver it. Related, Sinclair Media posed this poll question yesterday: Do you believe the FBI has been politically weaponized? 82% of the greater than 6,000 respondents said yes. It’s but the latest example of a bloated government that’s grown out of control. Less government equals a more responsive government, including providing fewer opportunities for bad actors to hide. Government oversight is a tough thing to do when there are 430 federal government agencies with over 2.2 million employees. It’s less likely that diseased temples could be built in the swamp...
Takeaway #3: If much of it were already drained
How would you grade Attorney General Pam Bondi’s job performance so far? If I’m being generous, prior to yesterday, I’d have given her a “D”. From mishandling Epstein disclosure, to what feels like the status quo in terms of federal accountability, there’s not a lot that she’s done to date that makes me feel all that great about her ability to do what needs to be done to clean up the government swamp. But yesterday, her performance on Capitol Hill before the senate was brilliant as she laid out the work that’s been done behind the scenes and on the streets across the country to clean up the crime and illegal immigration crisis (in addition to the news that she laid off hundreds of DOJ deep staters too). Government accountability has been nearly nonexistent and much of it has been due to the size of it. There’s only one way this partial government shutdown should end and that’s with the largest reduction in the size of the federal government in American history. Everday of this “shutdown” there’s proof that there’s a way to do this and everyday there’s more evidence of a need to do this.