Russ Vought is exactly the right man to seize this shutdown moment. If federal bureaucrats are "nonessential" during a shutdown, they should be permanently nonessential. And then we can permanently reduce the size of the federal government.

With Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Newt Gingrich, John Carney, Gov. Sarah Sanders (R-AR), and Walter Russell Mead.

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