The shutdown fight is a critical moment in the expansion of the government

Byron York, Washington Examiner

What the government shutdown fight is about. Republicans want to pass a simple bill to

keep the government open, but Democrats insist it must also extend “emergency” Obamacare premium tax credits from the COVID crisis bills. Big government at its worst. Total federal spending in fiscal 2019, the last before COVID, was $4.45 trillion. In fiscal 2024, it was $6.75 trillion. That is an increase of 52% in just five years. It is a situation that is not, as they say, sustainable. And that is what the current shutdown showdown is about.