It's unpopular because it's incorrect. This isn't fiscal "restraint", this is a spanner thrown into the federal government with the intention to cause dysfunction. When the government is no longer able to meet the needs of the people because it has been intentionally kneecapped, the billionaires who made this choice will push to privatize the affected services instead.

And in doing so, they will take the value and experience that was built up in our federal institutions over generations and throw it away to enrich themselves.