administration posts have not yet been confirmed like the department of homeland security which everseas femahe coast guard an and the head of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. the president says he will actually leave many mid level jobs unfilled to shrink the bloated government and john tamny, you're okay with that, right? >> yes, good for president trump here. fema doesn't have any constitutional basis in the first place, but in the bigger sense, with government less there's always more. whenever there's a government shutdown in washington, i want to meet the people who feel they really notice it throughout the country that we have less government. we need to see that we're fine when there's less happening in washington. david: so, e-mack, maybe leave these jobs unfilled? >> we don't need the state department enjoy for hillary clinton transparency-- well, maybe we do. we don't need the enjoy for iran-- oh, maybe we do, hang on. for india, south korea, japan, we need the ambassadors yet to be seated and don't have one for ireland yet. i get it about shrinking government,