>Is the shutdown a setup to clean house by firing nonessential employees?
Q2501: DC has become RAT infested
At first I thought it was 'dumb' to even consider this, but if there were moles (rats?) entrenched inside the WH staff … they would need to be exterminated
Remember the Clinton Travel Gate Scandal of 1993? When they tried to replace the travel office people with Clinton Cronies?
Maybe not the objective of the shutdown, but one of the benefits?