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The Texas senator celebrated cutting left-wing bureaucrats.Republican Senator Ted Cruz celebrated the Trump administrations threat to use the government shutdown to conduct mass layoffs of federal workers.
The Texas lawmaker said Trumps budget chief, Russ Vought, has changed the dynamic with the current shutdown.
Cruz attributed Vought with saying if there is a shutdown, President Trump is going to use that opportunity not to tell people youre furloughed for a few days but instead to send pink slips and to get rid of left-wing bureaucrats who are imposing left wing priorities that are contrary to President Trumps priorities.
I think that is fantastic, Cruz said on Fox Business.
He said it will cause Democrats in Congress to scream and weep and gnash their teeth.
I cannot wait for the next Democrat lunch when they start screaming at each other when they start seeing pink slips go out at the EPA, at the Department of Labor, at the IRS and suddenly the bureaucrats that they are entrusting to advance their job killing agenda are themselves without a job.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-calls-people-losing-jobs-in-shutdown-fantastic/

niyad
(127,652 posts)Emile
(37,953 posts)is more concerned about socialism for the wealthy, over the high cost of health care for the average person.
Aristus
(71,003 posts)The sheer level of hatred...
rurallib
(64,197 posts)somewhat personal as a cane. No, I believe it will be a gun, probably an AK47
misanthrope
(9,206 posts)The forerunners to today's MAGA Americans so admired South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks for nearly killing Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate that a town in Florida and a county in Georgia were named after Brooks.
Aristus
(71,003 posts)For MAGAt-Americans throughout our history, the cruelty has been the point.
misanthrope
(9,206 posts)was not finding a way to more fully shatter Southern culture following the Civil War.
Paladin
(31,694 posts)I'm sure Rand Paul will be putting his kneepads on for trump again, as well. Everything back to depressingly normal status.
lame54
(38,516 posts)Cruz will be out of a job
walkingman
(9,900 posts)I do also.
Buns_of_Fire
(18,789 posts)Let the cutbacks get within a half-mile of Rafael's pampered ass, and just watch how quickly he finds the money.
Grins
(8,908 posts)He thinks this will just affect people in Washington, DC. Ignoring the vast number of federales in Texas. His constituents.
And how many military families and local businesses are dependent on those other federal employees
?
JustAnotherGen
(37,135 posts)when the regime falls - it cannot be a return to the status quo. It simply cannot.
republianmushroom
(21,510 posts)area51
(12,460 posts)Hopefully you'll be out of a job soon. Imagine a coward who let Trump insult his wife & dad.
Wiz Imp
(7,581 posts)I'm not sure there is even a way for them to know an employees party identification. So if they start firing people, they will be firing a lot of Republicans as well as Democrats. If they found a way to fire only Democrats, they'd be sure to be hit with a massive class action lawsuit which the government would definitely lose, exposing them to paying out even more money.
Moron Cruz appears to believe only Democrats work for the EPA, IRS and USDOL. As someone who worked for both DOL & IRS, I can assure Cruz there are plenty of Republicans working at both agencies. It's disgusting these agencies are being portrayed as "Democrat". These agencies are some of the most important agencies in the government for protecting the population (and the IRS is essential to fund the government - you know even the Department of Defense and ICE can't operate without taxes collected by the IRS).