That is just pure bullshit.
I was aware of the previous CR. It is not clear to me how the Treasury doles out previously-authorized funds, but I will assume for purposes of this post, in response to your own politely incendiary post (LOL), that the basic operations of the military would have continued. But now Trump can start building the wall and mobilizing assets for other extraordinary defense issues that he alone may have identified. I have no basis for second-guessing him. (And I do want him to start building the wall--which he could probably never get funded apart from an omnibus bill.)
More importantly, I believe that Trump's larger (and, at this time, quietly ongoing) program against the Deep State is much bigger and more important than I suggested when I mentioned only the military
and the DOJ and the intelligence community. I suspect that the white hats in the FBI and the State Department and DHS and ICE need to stay on the job at
full-strength staffing levels with no distractions. I would point out that the OIG's huge organization within the DOJ is crucially important to the White House's momentum and tempo at this time--as is the DHS. And all of these agencies that I have mentioned are interconnected with practically all of the other agencies of the federal government. The intelligence community, for example, is seventeen different agencies that are surely tied to everything from cafeterias to crapper cleaners. (Pardon my profane speech.)
We often say,
Hey, a shutdown is no big deal. But I am not sure that is always true. It depends on what needs to get done during a shutdown. And that depends on what POTUS sees as looming up on the horizon. (I personally think we are headed for pretty hard times in America; I just don't know when it will hit us like a ton of bricks.)
Finally, I would ask you to tell me why you think Trump signed the bill. Heck (again, please overlook my profanity), until now, Trump has scoffed at folks who have been afraid to shut down the government--and he knows that he has gotten enthusiastic support for that scoffing; that being the case, I will not accept your answer if you say he is just trying to curry favor with the Dems--or that he is afraid of a backlash of disgruntlement. And I think that when these explanations are taken off the table, we are left with my answer:
national security.
Anyway, let's wait and see what happens over the next several weeks.
