The closure policy has Republicans singing government praises

Congress leaders could not contain their concern. The essential government services were threatened. Children in need could suffer. Disaster preparation was threatened.

“You are talking about women, infants and children relying on these additional nutrition programs that are not funded and are closed,” said President Mike Johnson on Fox Business Network. “They affect the services of FEMA in the middle of the hurricanes season.”

It does not matter that Mr. Johnson directed the Republicans this year by putting pressure on the legislation to reduce nutritional assistance programs as part of the Party tax reductions, or that President Trump brought an ax to FEMA subsidies during his first months in power.

In the political messages upside down surrounding the fight against closure, conservative republicans, generally eager to match the generosity of the government, have turned into enthusiastic evangelists for federal expenses and programs. It is part of a GOP offer to maximize the pressure on democrats, which regularly argue for civil servants and government services, to give in to the spending battle.

“These are our veterans, our soldiers, our TSA agents, women, infants and children,” said Minnesota Tom Emmer representative, the Republican of Chamber No. 3, on Fox News when he broke those who depend on the government for their salary and their advantages. “The list continues again and again.”

There are limits to the conversion of republican closure – in particular Mr. Trump himself, who was positively joyful as to the prospect of using a federal closure to dismiss government employees and reduce the initiatives that Democrats support.

“They are so worried that people are dismissed,” said senator Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat, with more than one hint of sarcasm. “They are like” Oh Gee, this evil that will happen to all these people “- as if they had not already dismissed tens of thousands of people.”

However, the best Republicans in Congress and some in the White House express the most serious concerns for a bureaucracy that they generally hide as useless or worse.

“There are a lot of critical things that the federal government does,” vice-president JD Vance said in the White House. “Our troops must be paid. Our air traffic controllers must ensure that people fly safely and time. We need low -income people to be able to access the food services provided by the federal government. There are critical things that must be saved. ”

Even the Chip Roy representative, a small Government Republican in Texas, deplored reports according to which employees of the American agriculture department are responsible for supervising local pilers have been returned to their homes as non -essential workers, the exchange breeders who depend on them for the labeling of the products.

“Local American beef is as essential as possible,” said Roy on social networks.

The reversal by the Republicans who often tear government spending, such as waste, fraud and abuse and federal workers as soulless bureaucrats are a difference in the closure of the previous ones.

In the past, it has generally been democrats emphasizing the value of federal programs and the damage that a closure can cause while the Republicans hausses the shoulders. But while they work for the Democrats to pay a price for the closure, the best members of the GOP emphasize the whole good that the government does.

“The Democratic closure disrupts critical federal functions and directly undermines the publication of data in a timely time,” said Republican representative of Michigan and president of the Education and Workbob, in a press release.

It is far from the point of view of Mr. Walberg on the government last spring, when he welcomed the dismantling of the Department of Education, saying that he was looking forward to “the federal government on the back of students, families, educators and taxpayers”.

Democrats do not buy the new republican appreciation of the government.

“This is probably a subject of republican discussion,” said Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democrat chief of the Chamber. “But there is a great irony in terms of which they look at the importance of government services they have just closed and do so several times in recent decades.”

The Democrats have so far remained firm against republican requests to support a draft arrest expenses that would reopen the government unless it contains additional money for health care programs, but they torile a little. It is contrary to their political nature of being able to vote against the legislation which would bring federal workers to work.

But they say that they must use the limited lever effect they have when the congress and the White House are controlled by the Republicans to stop an increase in Obamacare health insurance premiums. They are also in the empowerment of Mr. Trump when he has already shown that he will spend or spend appropriate money, but it appeals – no matter what the said congress.

The Republicans are fully aware of the traditional democratic discomfort in the closure of the government and believe that this will eventually make them go to the closing struggle.

“I cannot wait for the next Democratic lunch when they start to shout on it,” Texas Republican, on the Fox Business Network said. “When they start to see pink shifts coming out at EPA, the Ministry of Labor, the IRS, and suddenly, the bureaucrats they give to advance their job killers are themselves unemployed.”

Mr. Cruz referred to threats from Mr. Trump that he would take advantage of the opportunity presented by the closure to dismiss thousands of federal workers in a break with previous closures, when the workers were temporarily on leave but brought back and rewarded the remuneration when the closure ended legislative.

If he arrives at mass layoffs, senior Republicans want the public to know that this will only happen with the largest reserves of Russell T. Vought, head of the management and budget office.

“Russ reluctantly does so,” said President Johnson to journalists. “There is no pleasure for that.”

This idea was underlined by certain Republican colleagues, with Senator Mike Lee, republican of Utah, saying on X that Mr. Vought, the architect of some of the most austere administration plans, “dreamed – and was meticulously prepared for” the opening to Pare Back the Government provided by the break “since puberty”.

Trump even shared on social networks, a clip generated by Mr. Vought, disguised as Grim Reaper, who came to release his false on the federal bureaucracy.

The potential for suspending the women’s, infants and children has drawn the particular attention of Republicans, republican leaders regularly mentioning the possibility of funding that is explained for a popular initiative that provides food and other nutritional assistants to millions of low -income families.

“They have an end of funding laps for critical food aid programs, just as they have all the other negative effects of closure,” said Senator John Thune, a republican of the southern Dakota and the head of the majority, on Monday on the Senate of Democrats.

Closure is not the only recent threat to the program. The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities and other groups earlier this year condemned the Trump administration’s budget proposal to reduce the benefits of fruits and vegetables as part of the program and relieve existing funds.

The proposed changes have taken place after the Republicans approved the cuts in the food coup programs which should end another nutritional assistance for millions of Americans as part of the so-called major bill.