Speaker 1: Steve Bannon, former Trump White House strategist and guiding force
Speaker 1: behind the War Room Network, has been notably active during
Speaker 1: the federal government's shutdown that began earlier this week. On
Speaker 1: his daily podcast and social media streams, Bannon has been
Speaker 1: hammering home his long held vision of radically shrinking federal bureaucracy.
Speaker 1: According to Heathercox Richardson on Substack, Bannon's influences echoed in
Speaker 1: real time by allies like OMB director Russell Vout, who
Speaker 1: are using the current crisis to press for aggressive cuts
Speaker 1: to the civil service, precisely what Bannon argued for back
Speaker 1: in the mid nineteen tenedies. This playbook, which Bannon calls
Speaker 1: deconstructing the administrative state, has become policy now, with Cabinet
Speaker 1: secretaries openly considering which departments to acts and which workers
Speaker 1: to let go as government operations grind to a halt.
Speaker 1: On real imase Erica's Voice and other conservative media outlets,
Speaker 1: Bannon has been framing the shutdown as a once in
Speaker 1: a generation opportunity to force Washington and what he calls
Speaker 1: radical Democrats to the negotiating table. In interviews, he's cast
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer as the desperate ringleader of a flailing party,
Speaker 1: insisting that public outrage will soon give Trump and his
Speaker 1: populist wing the upper hand. Bannon predicted last Friday on
Speaker 1: AOL News that Trump's tariff plans could soon generate up
Speaker 1: to six dollars trillion dollars for the economy, a claim
Speaker 1: widely questioned by mainstream economists but popular among his maga's
Speaker 1: social media base, where hashtags calling for government downsizing have
Speaker 1: gone viral. Bannon himself remains in the headlines. A resurfaced
Speaker 1: Hollywood reporter story cited this week by IMDb rehashed Bannon's
Speaker 1: dubious connection to Jeffrey Epstein, specifically alleged behind the scenes
Speaker 1: media coaching sessions in twenty nineteen, though nothing new was
Speaker 1: revealed and Bannon has repeatedly denied any personal involvement. After
Speaker 1: Epstein's arrest on social media, Bannon shrugged off this old gossip,
Speaker 1: pivoting back to the budget fight. Behind the scenes, insiders
Speaker 1: say Bannon continues to advise Trump's team, especially on messaging
Speaker 1: to working class voters and the ongoing efforts to replace
Speaker 1: top officials at agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Speaker 1: where Trump's last nominee Withdrew amid bi part is in Uproar,
Speaker 1: an attempted shake up vocally supported by Bannon. While there's
Speaker 1: speculation about whether Bannon could return in an official capacity
Speaker 1: if Trump wins again, he's kept his own counsel, preferring
Speaker 1: his activist media platform for influence. In short, Bannon's finger
Speaker 1: prints are all over the shutdown's narrative, staying central to
Speaker 1: both the drama in Washington and the MAGA movement's future.
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