Conveniently, Republicans aren't "working to make it smaller" and are "hatefully burning it all down" as seen in their constant debt limit antics, their lack of

Conveniently, Republicans aren't "working to make it smaller" and are "hatefully burning it all down" as seen in their constant debt limit antics, their lack of any cohesive platform, Grover Norquist's comments about drowning the government in a bathtub, their abuse of the filibuster to block anything at all from passing rather than working on compromise, and many more examples.