US EditionTrump sees 'unprecedented opportunity' to cut government during shutdown
- The federal government shutdown entered its second day on Thursday after Congress failed to pass a funding resolution by the Sept. 30 deadline.
- The shutdown resulted from a Senate failure to approve a Republican-backed stopgap funding bill, with Democrats opposing it over healthcare subsidy extensions.
- President Trump met with OMB Director Russ Vought, a key figure in the Project 2025 plan, to discuss which 'Democrat agencies' to cut, seeking temporary or permanent reductions.
- Trump called the shutdown an "unprecedented opportunity" to enact massive federal cuts, while the Congressional Budget Office estimated 750,000 furloughed workers and warned of $15 billion weekly GDP losses.
- The shutdown’s persistence raises economic risks, prompts imminent federal layoffs, and signals a partisan impasse with unclear resolution timing and negotiations stalled.
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Trump calls shutdown an ‘unprecedented opportunity,’ and eyes deep cuts - West Hawaii Today
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would meet with his budget chief to determine which “Democrat agencies” he could try to cut, relishing the government shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” to achieve his agenda and dismantle federal programs.
"I don't believe that extreme-left democracies gave me this opportunity without precedent," said the President of the United States, referring to the budgetary impact in the Congress.
Donald Trump using shutdown to inflict pain on ‘radical left’ and cut Democrat agencies
US president Donald Trump said he was meeting with his budget director Russell Vought to determine which “Democrat Agencies” to cut, as he looks to inflict pain on his political opposition in the second day of a government shutdown.
Shutdown to extend into next week as Trump readies budget knife
The partial government shutdown rolled on Thursday with both sides dug in and President Donald Trump using the funding lapse as an excuse to cut billions of dollars in “dead wood,” as he put it, throughout the executive branch. Trump said in a social media post that he’d meet with Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought to go over “which of the many Democrat Agencies” should be cut as the GOP seeks to make the shutdown more painful …
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