The Koch Republic is still formulating its response to President Obama's expected executive actions on immigration. Koch Republic employee (and Senator-elect) Tom Cotton of Arkansas noted:
I don't think anyone wants to shut down government because that doesn't solve the problem.Translation: Actually, we'd love to shut down the government for good, except the parts we like. You know, ones like the DoD and Homeland Security, the useful ones. Anyway, while we plan to eventually get rid of the rest, we've learned to be more careful about how we go about it. Don't want to kick the hornet's nest again like we did with that last shutdown. We'll go with the "death by a thousand cuts" approach instead. It's slower but we'll keep whittling away the budget until those so called "safety net" programs and the other useless agencies like the EPA are gone.