Republicans Weigh Sweeping Cuts as Shutdown Grips Washington

Republicans honed their shutdown strategy on Wednesday, openly debating how aggressively to use the opportunity to slash federal workers and spending, a hardball tactic that could force Democrats to cave, but carries political risk of backfiring.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday said the White House would quickly move to cut the federal bureaucracy. The shutdown gives Republicans an opening to “do some things that we would not otherwise be able to do, because we would never get Democrat votes for them,” Johnson told Fox Business on Wednesday.

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