{"id":2504217,"date":"2025-10-29T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumers-shutdown-is-empowering-trump-to-drain-the-swamp\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:33:20","slug":"schumers-shutdown-is-empowering-trump-to-drain-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumers-shutdown-is-empowering-trump-to-drain-the-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer&#8217;s Shutdown Is Empowering Trump To Drain The Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fschumers-shutdown-is-empowering-trump-to-drain-the-swamp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2504217&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This article discusses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pledges-pay-raises-for-military-members\/\" title=\"... pledges pay raises for military members\">ongoing federal government shutdown<\/a> and how Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer&#8217;s opposition has ironically empowered former President Donald Trump to reduce the size and influence of the federal bureaucracy. Schumer, who onc warned that shutdowns give Trump excessive control over government funding, is now witnessing Trump use this leverage to fulfill campaign promises like &#8220;draining the swamp.&#8221; The federal government, notably in Washington D.C., employs over 2.4 million people, many of whom are democrats and receive high compensation, contributing to government bloat and high costs to taxpayers.As returning to office, Trump has pursued aggressive measures to shrink the federal workforce, including converting career bureaucrats into political appointees, cutting departments, and offering buyouts. During the shutdown that began October 1, Trump has authorized targeted layoffs, such as 1,300 IRS employees, while keeping essential services operational. The article suggests that this push to streamline government is saving taxpayers money and offers laid-off federal workers opportunities in the robust private sector, which currently has millions of job openings. It concludes by framing the shutdown as a political dilemma for Democrats: either fund the government or risk enabling further reductions in federal employment, perhaps alienating federal workers as voters in future elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Every day the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kristen-welker-asks-jeffries-about-sombrero-memes\/\" title=\"Kristen Welker Asks Jeffries About Sombrero Memes\">federal government shutdown drags<\/a> on, Sen. Chuck Schumer looks more like a man without a message and a rebel with a losing cause.<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s shouting,&nbsp;&ldquo;No kings!&rdquo;&nbsp;into every microphone he can find, trying to sound like a revolutionary to appease his base voters. But&nbsp;<em>he<\/em>&nbsp;is the one putting the crown on Donald Trump&rsquo;s head, handing him the very powers he warned about just months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, Schumer said: &ldquo;A shutdown gives Trump and his minions keys to the city and the country &hellip; complete freedom as to what parts of the government to fund and what parts not.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He was onto something. Now Trump is using those keys to unlock one of his biggest campaign promises: draining the swamp and taking power back from Washington&rsquo;s permanent ruling class. Conservatives have always wanted to do this, but thanks to Schumer, it is finally happening.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington swamp is deep and crowded. The federal government is the largest employer in the United States, with more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/research\/congress-can-fight-back-against-partisan-bureaucrats-shrink-federal-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2.4 million<\/a>&nbsp;federal employees, and they are mainly concentrated in the Washington, D.C., area.<\/p>\n<p>These bureaucrats receive nearly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/research\/congress-can-fight-back-against-partisan-bureaucrats-shrink-federal-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">double<\/a>&nbsp;the compensation on average that private sector workers get, and they are overwhelmingly Democrat, making D.C. much&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/elections\/2024\/general-results\/margin-of-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bluer than any state<\/a>&nbsp;in the union. Federal jobs cost taxpayers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/research\/congress-can-fight-back-against-partisan-bureaucrats-shrink-federal-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$384 billion<\/a>&nbsp;each year, helping to put four of the 10&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/healthiest-communities\/slideshows\/richest-counties-in-america?slide=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wealthiest counties<\/a>&nbsp;in the United States in the D.C. area. And the higher concentration of money and Democrats has only accelerated the bloat.<\/p>\n<p>In just the last five years, the federal government added&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/research\/congress-can-fight-back-against-partisan-bureaucrats-shrink-federal-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 200,000 jobs<\/a>&nbsp;and nearly doubled the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/research\/congress-can-fight-back-against-partisan-bureaucrats-shrink-federal-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cost<\/a>&nbsp;of the federal workforce. Yet despite this growth in the number of federal workers, the public&rsquo;s trust in the federal government remains&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2024\/06\/24\/public-trust-in-government-1958-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">near an all-time low<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump ran for office as a political outsider, a successful businessman who became the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2016\/11\/11\/13587532\/donald-trump-no-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only president<\/a>&nbsp;who had never served in government or the military before. He echoed the people&rsquo;s concerns that we had ceded too much power to unelected bureaucrats and pledged to &ldquo;drain the swamp.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to the Oval Office in January, President Trump has revisited some innovative ideas that he pioneered during his first term and continued to employ new tactics to take back power from the bureaucracy. The president has begun to convert some <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >career bureaucrat jobs &#038;mdash<\/a>; protected by unions and essentially unaccountable to anyone &mdash; into political&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/research\/congress-can-fight-back-against-partisan-bureaucrats-shrink-federal-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appointee jobs<\/a>, which are at-will, like the vast majority of jobs in this country. With a few strokes of his Sharpie, the president initiated the elimination of the Department of Education and our foreign aid bureaucracy, eliminating&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/research\/congress-can-fight-back-against-partisan-bureaucrats-shrink-federal-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3,000 federal jobs<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after his inauguration, the president&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/13\/retirements-buyouts-federal-government-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offered an unprecedented buyout<\/a>&nbsp;to nearly all federal employees and got more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/economy\/jobs\/federal-worker-buyouts-are-kicking-in-darkening-the-u-s-employment-picture-4c3f044b?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhB9bmrkBd2kyOafAB8gDOy8gm66fvDR7eBzn-LzBacymtClDavkx7M&amp;gaa_ts=68ef140f&amp;gaa_sig=CYR6E5DlxMQqQq0kImAusAlinpjfHBLT6yS2wXi-edc-oT3IKcJ5hWFj_QP7O2G7j74G3Ei_4ADuO27NFqRMxA%253D%253D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100,000 acceptances<\/a>&nbsp;that are now going into effect. But all of these historic actions were just the beginning. Now the president&rsquo;s efforts to shrink the federal workforce have gone into overdrive, and it is all thanks to Democrats in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Since the shutdown began on Oct. 1, Trump and his team have set about making Schumer&rsquo;s worst fears a reality. President Trump is using his authority under a government shutdown to keep the most essential parts of government open while keeping the most wasteful parts closed.<\/p>\n<p>White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report\/trump-starts-mass-layoffs-at-irs-treasury-amid-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,300 layoffs at the IRS<\/a>, an agency Democrats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/workforce\/2023\/04\/irs-hire-30000-employees-over-next-two-years\/384897\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vastly expanded<\/a>&nbsp;under President Biden. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afge.org\/article\/shutdown-update-5-things-you-should-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thousands more<\/a> federal workers have been laid off in the past few weeks. With every passing day that Schumer blocks a vote to fund the government, Trump can continue handing out the pink slips and saving taxpayers millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The good news waiting for recently drained federal employees is that there are more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/timeseries\/JTS000000000000000JOL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">7 million job openings<\/a>&nbsp;in America today &mdash; the private-sector jobs that contribute to funding the government if Chuck Schumer ever opens it again. Most talented and hard-working federal workers can turn their efforts toward making the economy even stronger, not bogging it down with regulations, inefficiencies, or partisan activities.<\/p>\n<p>As the Schumer Shutdown drags on, the layoffs continue. The dilemma facing Democrats is this: Either reopen the government or sit back and watch the president continue to remake the federal government using the powers they gave him.<\/p>\n<p>If elected Democrats keep siding with the bureaucrats over the majority of the American people, they may be the federal employees that voters give the pink slips to next November.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/fga-author\/liesel-crocker\/\">Liesel Crocker<\/a> is a senior research fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumer&#8217;s shutdown fight only crowns Trump&#8217;s power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4091,"featured_media":2504218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trump-Marine-One.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[49787,5894,4411,5123,3634],"class_list":["post-2504217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-drain-the-swamp","tag-politics","tag-schumer","tag-shutdown","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trump-Marine-One.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504221,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504217\/revisions\/2504221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}