CNBC explains 'What Project 2025 Has To Do With This Government Shutdown'

I closed Stewart, Meyers, and Kimmel take closer looks at the shutdown and sending troops to Portland by telling my readers "Stay tuned to see if I post something serious" today. Thanks to CNBC, I am. Watch as CNBC explains What Project 2025 Has To Do With This Government Shutdown.

The government may fire thousands of unionized federal workers during the shutdown that began in October. This effort was foreshadowed in Project 2025, what some consider a blueprint for conservative governance. Several authors from the document are now senior-level members of the Trump administration. CNBC spoke with one who believes the federal workforce needs to change. Their efforts could reshape the federal bureaucracy, but do little to alter the country’s financial outlook.

I begin my reaction by recycling the relevant paragraph from CNBC explains the federal government shutdown.

The shutdown looks like another opportunity for Russell Vought to implement more of Project 2025 regarding the federal workforce. Vought did say he wanted to traumatize federal employees and the threat of firing them instead of merely furloughing them would certainly do that, to say nothing of following through and laying them off.

Welcome to more "shock and awful" and..."[the] Chainsaw Massacre of our federal workforce." Just because Elon Musk and DOGE are no longer in charge doesn't mean it's not still happening.

As for Donald "Hoover Cleveland" Trump getting on board with this agenda, I'm recycling my remarks from Colbert, 'The Daily Show,' Meyers, and Kimmel take closer looks at the shutdown: "Hoover Cleveland is finally embracing Project 2025 in public. I didn't believe his denials anyway."

That's a wrap for today, although I expect to write more about the government shutdown. In the meantime, stay tuned for another tale of the Retail Apocalypse tomorrow.