The people currently in office certainly won't defund themselves. We'd still have to replace them by voting out the incumbents for there ever to be a chance of

The people currently in office certainly won't defund themselves. We'd still have to replace them by voting out the incumbents for there ever to be a chance of shrinking these massive bureaucracies (think TSA, DHS, FBI, etc). Also there is an institutional culture of corruption in congress that can only be removed by clearing house. Think of it as citizen imposed congressional term limits. That should be the default as opposed to incumbent winning 90+% of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_stagnation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_stagnation_in_th...