Friday, November 07, 2025

The import of the record long federal government shutdown

Probably, most Americans (except for federal employees) did not even notice, at least not until the very end when SNAP payments were at risk and some domestic flights were cancelled!

This was a great and rare social experiment at scale!

President Trump and the GOP would be well advised to take this opportunity to massively downsize the federal government. Thereby, also significantly reducing the unsustainable accumulated federal government debt and annual federal government deficits.

Never let a crisis go to waste! as Rahm Emanuel (Former White House Chief of Staff of President Obama and more recently Ambassador to Japan) used to famously say.

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