President Trump Thursday vowed to take advantage of the government shutdown to permanently shutter federal agencies that he brands “a political scam” and taunted Democrats for giving him the authority to act unilaterally by not voting to keep the government funded.

With no end to the shutdown in sight, Trump said he would meet with budget chief Russ Vought, the architect of the far right-wing Project 2025 policy blueprint, to identify which federal agencies could be put on the chopping block during the shutdown and beyond.

“(We will) determine which of the many Democrat agencies, most of which are a political scam, (should) be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “I can’t believe the … Democrats gave me this unpre

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