Asenior Trump administration official urged the president Monday in an anonymous op-ed to leave shuttered government agencies closed forever
The person said that non-essential agencies that are closed, and their personnel, that are not being paid through the partial federal shutdown should be cut loose
Pushing a philosophical position on big government that is shared by most conservatives in Trump's political party, the unknown author said: 'The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall
It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.' The op-ed writer known only to the outlet that published the piece, The Daily Caller, was said to be a high-ranking official in the Republican president's government working without a paycheck
It was reminiscent of the op-ed in the New York Times last year penned by a senior official who claimed to be working for Trump to keep him from executing policies that would be harmful to the nation
This op-ed was written by someone within the administration who vocally supports the president's agenda and wants him to go further with budget cuts and immigration measures
The author hinted at being a political appointee while chiding career civil servants that the federal government has a hard time firing, even when they break the rules
In the essay, the official estimated that just 15 percent other government employees are 'are exceptional patriots serving their country' who deserve competitive salaries
'But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results.If they don't feel like doing what they are told, they don't,' the person wrote
'Why would they? We can't fire them.They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position, some do this in the same position for more than a decade
' The Trump administration official claimed that most government workers in question 'do nothing that warrants punishment and nothing of external value' and are weighed down by layers of unnecessary bureaucracy
'That is their workday: errands for the sake of errands; administering, refining, following and collaborating on process
"Process is your friend" is what delusional civil servants tell themselves,' the person wrote
For government employees seeking to implement the president's policy priorities, the person claimed their time is often wasted preventing so-called deep state actors from derailing the administration's political agenda
'Saboteurs peddling opinion as research, tasking their staff on pet projects or pitching wasteful grants to their friends
Most of my career colleagues actively work against the president's agenda,' the person claimed
'This means I typically spend about 15 percent of my time on the president's agenda and 85 percent of my time trying to stop sabotage, and we have no power to get rid of them
' The shutdown relieved the official of those lazy colleagues the person said are working against the president or abusing the system
Because they're deemed non-essential, they have been furloughed until further notice
'We do not want most employees to return, because we are working better without them,' the person wrote
Noting that the plan to close those agencies forevermore is decried by some, who say that it's 'morally wrong' to strip workers' of guaranteed paychecks, the op-ed writer compared their plight to that of a troubled pet owner mulling end of life care
'It is tough to put them down and let go, and many resist,' the person wrote.Roughly one-quarter of the federal workforce have had their pay withheld since December 21 in the longest-ever government shutdown as the White House tangles with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over how to secure the U
S.-Mexico border.The president hasn't taken his foot off the gas pedal, bashing Democrats for leaving Washington while government employees wait to find out when their paychecks will return
'I've been here all weekend,' he groused on Monday.'A lot of Democrats are in Puerto Rico, celebrating something, I don't know
Maybe they're celebrating the shutdown.' He didn't express any confidence that the shutdown's days are numbered, although he described Republicans as 'rock solid' and claimed of Democrats that 'many of them are calling and many of them are breaking
'I don't know if we're close on a deal,' Trump said.'This should be the easiest deal that I've ever seen
We're talking about border security.Who could be against it?' The senior official writing in The DC urged him to stay the course and advised him to ask more of lawmakers than he had been
'The president should add to his demands, including a vote on all of his political nominees in the Senate
Send the career appointees back.Many are in the 5 percent of saboteurs and resistance leaders,' the person contended
The official said the shutdown must reap big benefits for Trump or it will not be considered a victory for him or the Republican Party
'A word of caution: To be a victory, this shutdown must be different than those of the past and should achieve lasting disruption with two major changes, or it will hurt the president,' the person advised
Only the essential federal workers who are not receiving paychecks should get their money until then, the anonymous official argued
'Ideally continue a resolution to pay the essential employees only, if they are truly working on national security,' the person said
'Furloughed employees should find other work, never return and not be paid.' With Pelosi and Schumer standing in his way, a remaining option is for the president to declare a national emergency and use existing Defense Department funds to build his border wall
But Trump has resisted the temptation, and appeared no closer on Monday to taking that tempting off-ramp from the crisis
'I'm not looking to call a national emergency.This is so simple, you shouldn't have to,' he said
'Now, I have the absolute legal right to call it, but I'm not looking to do that.Trump claimed that Democrats 'are stopping us, and they're stopping a lot of great people from getting paid,' many of whom he's claimed are members of their political party
The anonymous official said that the crisis on the border is a federal emergency and Trump should follow-through on a related threat to strip nations of foreign aid that are providing the greatest number of illegal immigrants
Even more, he should permanently close United States' government agencies, too, that do not directly protect America's national security, the person said
'The president's instincts are right, Most Americans will not miss non-essential government functions
A referendum to end government plunder must happen,' the official wrote.'Wasteful government agencies are fighting for relevance but they will lose
Now is the time to deliver historic change by cutting them down forever.'
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