JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stubborn stalemate in Congress.
Vance warned that as the federal shutdown entered its 12th day, the new cuts would be “painful,” even as he said the Trump administration worked to ensure that the military is paid this week and some services would be preserved for low-income Americans, including food assistance.
Still, hundreds of thousands of government workers have been furloughed in recent days and, in a court filing on Friday, the Office of Management and Budget said well over 4,000 federal employees would soon be fired in conjunction with the shutdown. The effects of the shutdown also grew Sunday with the Smithsonian announcing its museums, research centers and the National Zoo are temporarily closed going forward for lack of funding.
Weird how the reporter for this story had access to Friday’s announcement that they were firing a whole bunch of people and Sunday’s threat to do even more but somehow missed the news on Saturday that they were forced to rehire a bunch of the people they fired on Friday (arc). Maybe with this administration’s lengthy track record of lies it’s not the best journalistic practice to just unquestioningly repeat what they say or something.