The President vowed to “do things that are irreversible” after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach an agreement on a bill securing funding for government services on Tuesday.
While Republicans control both chambers of Congress, they are short of the 60 votes they need to pass a spending bill in the Senate – the upper chamber.
Trump has threatened to make the changes permanent, expanding on the work of the Doge government efficiency department, formerly headed by Elon Musk, which has forced over 200,000 federal workers out of their jobs.
But experts told The i Paper that Trump could further exploit the situation, using it as a pretext to clamp down on political opponents.
A sign informs visitors that the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian is closed due to the government shutdown (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)In immediate aftermath of Conservative activist Kirk’s death, the White House announced plans to crack down on the “radical left” – despite his killer having no clear ideology or involvement in a political organisation.
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“The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people,” the banner on the Department of Housing and Urban Development website read.
Dr Andrew Wroe, Senior Lecturer in American Politics at Kent University, said the shutdown “fits into a wider narrative” about parts of the federal government being “part of a deep state” which is opposed to Trump.
In the short term, the American public can expect to experience immediate disruption as a result of the shutdown.
Federal employees will be worst affected, seeing their pay paused while the shutdown continues. Anyone deemed not to be an essential worker is required to stay at home by law.
“He’ll take quick action and then let the mess get sorted out in the courts over the next few years,” he said. “His modus operandi at the moment is: move fast, smash things.”
“I suspect that large additional cuts to social benefits is mostly big talk intended to frighten the Democrats; ultimately lots of those cuts will hurt Trump’s supporters too so I doubt he’d really have the stomach for it,” he told The i Paper.
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Read More“Again though, that process has often involved people ultimately having to be hired back to clear administrative backlogs, so I doubt the current shutdown is likely lead to a long-term shrinkage of the American state.”
Agencies favoured by the President have declared the federal employees who work for them as essential, or sheltered them under pre-approved funding streams, according to Politico.
“This could suggest that the administrion is digging in for a protracted battle and is prepared to let this shutdown run longer than they generally have in the past,” Dr Wraight added. “However, I personally am sceptical whether it is in Trump’s interests to do this for too long.
“The markets are in a slightly delicate position with many analysts suggesting a correction is coming on US stocks. In these circumstances, I think people will get jumpy if the shutdown goes on for too long.”
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