«“There will come a point when we have to face reality. We need to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. But we hope it doesn’t come to that,” a White House official said.»

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/politics/white-house-strategy-federal-firings-shutdown

God forbid they have to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. That would be awful.

(Unless they’re maybe dreading something else and they’re just lying.)