‘Government is serving one man’s ego’: Analyst slams Trump for cutting funding for blue states

New and varied reaction today to budget head Russell Vote saying the firing of federal workers could come any time as the government shutdown drags on. Speaker Mike Johnson insists vote is doing this only out of necessity. Russ does this reluctantly.We had a 45minute u telephone conference with him yesterday. He talked to all the House Republicans. He takes no pleasure in this because Russ has to sit down and decide because he's in charge of that office which policies, personnel, and which programs are esse ...