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.
Most people, even the dumb ones, are seeing that there is zero correlation here. If anything, they are literally not even paying the people they consider “waste” right now.
There is simply no sense in any of this. It’s just them doing shitty things after doing a thing that was so shitty even the democrats drew a line in the sand. Hell, even MTG is against it… How crazy does your conservative shit have to be for the woman who believes in Jewish space lasers to be like “oh no, that’s nuts. Let’s not.”