Since President Donald Trump is trying to keep the Republican Majlis on a continuous resolution to keep the government open during the fall, Elon Moscow has expressed a tendency to close the government, four sources familiar with his position.
Sources also tell Wired that the mask has called for a closure of the government – the goal is, in contrast to the White House’s willingness to prevent one – to some extent because it can potentially be easier to eliminate the job of hundreds of thousands of federal workers. These sources, which the Wired anonymously acknowledged, is specifically asked to be generally described because mask support information is held closely.
“The closure has been his priority,” said one Republican, referring to musk. “I think he is there by the president. I think he will be really hard for him.”
The second Republican, who had heard the mask’s willingness to turn off the government, tells Wiried that the billionaire’s goal is to continue the resolution – the cost of providing the government for temporary credit – if it is only for a short government closure.
“You know that none of this is about money savings, right?” He says a third Republican who is familiar with the backstage of musk. “It’s all about removing a liberal power base.”
Musk and White House did not immediately respond to comment requests.
A potential closure as the so -called efficiency of the Ministry of State Mask (DOGE) reduces its way through the government and eliminates the positions of tens of thousands of estimated workers. If a government shutdown occurs, many federal agencies and programs are essentially on ice. Agencies such as the FBI and others continue to a large extent by enforcing law and security functions – with some government workers who are not paid after the shutdown – and important functions such as issuing social security checks are not directly affected. However, each part of the program has a blackout and most of them are impressed.
Before shutting down, federal employees are effectively classified into essential or unnecessary tasks, and illegal employees are not allowed to work until the end of the work. According to possible federal agency plans developed by non -partnerships for public services in 2023, when the federal closure was difficult to prevent, the workers’ pool, which was conditioned on conditioning, was about 850,000 and about 410,000 were outside the Ministry of Defense.
The costs of federal personnel, including military spending, are about $ 340 billion annually, so even by shutting down all the third federal workers who are considered unnecessary can probably save about $ 110 billion a year – part of $ 1 trillion in the federal annual expenditure.
Mask has talked about eliminating so-called unnecessary workers-many of which do important things like food inspection, processing applications for benefits and climate data collection. According to the New Yorker, if the job is not necessary, or they do not do it well, it is obvious that they should not be in public law. “
