Since his swearing in, Trump has been pursuing plans laid out in Project 2025 to dramatically expand presidential power and reduce the size of the federal workforce. They include efforts like the Department of Government Efficiency and budget rescission packages, which have led to billions of dollars being stalled, scrapped or withheld by the administration so far this year.

They are now using the shutdown to accelerate their progress.

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    Huh, in just over a year, it went from “liberal conspiracy theory” to talk about the published Project 2025 - as in, you could download the document and read this supposed “conspiracy theory” - to this.

    How long until we see him embracing the Russian “hoax”? Or the Epstein “hoax”?

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      The Orange already embraced the Epstein “hoax” in this stupid AI video.

      Trump and Vought as the Grim Reaper preparing to harvest the babies? Does it really need to be any more obvious than that?