The Government Has Shut Down. Here's What Happens Next.

I have heard that Trump ordered Republicans not to talk with Dems.

I have heard Republicans say that Democrats should not allow the

government to shut down while negotiations are pending.  In my

opinion, these offers make little sense on their own, but there is a

history behind them that might illuminate what is really going on.

While telling us they were trying to save money, Republicans allowed

DOGE to run rampant.  DOGE fired workers willy-nilly, without 

first looking to see what those workers' responsibilities were. As 

any administrator knows, one has to look before the leap because

it is possible that some errors cannot be undone. DOGE did neither

and discovered that they had fired workers whom they should not 

have fired.  It is not clear if they were able to get those workers

back, nor is it yet known what programs/projects or other work

were interfered with or totally ruined by precipitous actions they

took.

Recently, there is a report that DOGE is now in the process of trying

to rehire workers they fired, but at the very same time, Trump is

threatening to fire even more workers and permanently this time.

Unfortunately, we can have no confidence that critical work will

not be irretrievably ruined, cancelled, or to what effect.  We do

know that this Administration operates with reckless abandon and

has overturned many rules and regulations that took years, perhaps

decades to arrive at a point of understanding that there was a need

for. 

So, now we must weigh the shutdown against the ill-conceived 

plans and actions this administration has taken so far, and hold

that against the very lives that will probably be lost if and when

the cuts to the medical safety benefits that the nation relies upon.

It is for these given reasons that I do believe that the shutdown

is the responsibility of the demonstrably reckless Republican

party, which is so flagrantly failing to perform its Constitutional

duties.