Trump Agrees With Schumer

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5. the shutdown would obviate the need for most of the bill

...look how they neutered USAID.

Not just with the canceling of contracts, but they actually repurposed the agency building. There is nowhere for those employees ordered back to work, and many are being sent to other agencies where there's literally no place for them and no actual job to perform, essentially ending USAID in any form that works as Congress intended.

Same with the 'emergency' they pretended at Dept. of Ed to get everyone to leave that agency building, which they will now promptly close. The wrestling marm in charge said as much.

What a shutdown will allow is a repetition of those actions. It's in the Project 2025 manual. The part written by the architect of the plan WHO IS RIGHT THERE RUNNING OMB, the agency that is not only inc harge of determining what's essential to remain open, but what agency and workforce will eventually return, most likely not at all.

Then you have the prospect of Musk and his army of techbros going through agencies like a closed amusement park.

The other hand is a continuing resolution that contains most of the priorities we advanced in 2024 and earlier in Biden's term. The downside are the holes in the budget, but the fight is still in the committees where the actual cuts are made. The CR isn't the budget end game.