https://gazette.com/2025/10/01/rocky...ment-shutdown/

This is the way it should be handled -- and the way it should have been handled in the past if Clinton and Obama hadn't used the shutdowns to score political points by putting the screws to the American public. There is no reason to close parks, forest lands, or open air monuments. They can post signs saying there are limited or even no services being provided at this time due to the government shut down. Heck, I wouldn't even object to the park service putting up just what the normal daily services would have cost so the American public can say -- yeah, this is something I want to fund (I do, I think park rangers are severely underfunded and underappreciated).

The reason I asked the question in the title is that this time, we have an administration that is willing to handle the shutdown in a way that shows we don't need all of the vast bureaucracy that has been built up over decades, that life can go on with a more minimalist government -- and ironically, the Trump administration may be poised to make even deeper cuts in the bureaucracy than they could have if the Democrats went along with the House GOP budget.