US EditionTrump sees 'unprecedented opportunity' to cut government during shutdown
President Trump plans to cut funding and lay off thousands of federal workers amid a partial government shutdown caused by bipartisan deadlock, risking $400 million in daily wages lost, the CBO said.
- 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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With Donald Trump expected to meet with Office of Management and Budget chair Russell Vought late Thursday about eliminating more government offices during the government shutdown, former Republican National Committee head Michael Steele told voters it was time to wake up to the president’s long-ran...
President Trump to Meet Russ Vought to Cut ‘Political SCAM Democrat Agencies’ Following Government Shutdown: “I Can’t Believe the Radical Left Democrats Gave Me This Unprecedented Opportunity” | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would meet with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, a key architect of the Project 2025 blueprint, to determine which federal agencies, deemed by Trump as “political SCAM Democrat Agencies,” should face cuts and whether those cuts will be temporary or permanent.
In the US budget dispute, President Trump presented the shutdown as a welcome self-torture of the opposition. He wanted to dismiss people in "Democrat authorities" in particular. Soon he would decide whether the job reduction was temporary or permanent.
Trump boasts of meeting with Project 2025 architect to cut 'Democrat agencies'
President Donald Trump — who spent the 2024 campaign denying any knowledge of Project 2025 — appointed its chief architect, Russell Vought, to lead the Office of Management and Budget upon taking office. On the second day of the government shutdown, the President boasted that he would meet with his OMB director to cut “Democrat agencies,” calling the standoff an “unprecedented opportunity” — a claim experts say is false, since a shutdown grants …
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