Bum's Rush
Bum's rush is typically used to indicate the way you hustle someone OUT as you would a bum (down-and-outer probably trying to cadge something–money or drinks).
Paul Krugman (a professor of economics at Princeton University) is emphasizing the hustle aspect, rushing the country or its poulation into something before they have time to think about it, the way you would hustle a bum out the door.
Bum's Rush
Ejection from an area or establishment, classically via being picked up by the seat of your pants and the back of your shirt.
The term has come to include most forms or violent rejection. Presumably this came from the ejecting of panhandlers from business establishments.
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The Bum’s Rush, USDA Style
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue doesn’t need to hit the road this summer to find more than enough messy problems to keep him busy through harvest.
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But Dr. Susan Offutt, ERS administrator from 1997 through 2006, says both agencies’ primary “customers” are policymakers in Congress and other government agencies. Perdue’s reasoning “sounds good, but it just isn’t how either agency works.”
https://www.farmandfoodfile.com/2019/07/10/the-bums-rush-usda-style/
Bum's in DC, plenty of them. Bums, rats, scum, bottom feeders