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White House Uses Shutdown to Maximize Pain on Foes

The administration halted $26 billion in funding, targeting Democrat-led projects and preparing layoffs of up to 300,000 federal workers by December, officials said.

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“The Trump administration took steps on Wednesday to maximize the pain of the government shutdown, halting billions of dollars in funds for Democratic-led states while readying a plan to lay off potentially droves of civil servants imminently,” the New York Times reports.“The moves by the

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Donald Trump wants to exploit the shutdown to carry out his program of drastic cuts to the federal government dictated more by ideological reasons than financial. Since yesterday, October 1, in fact, the United States has officially entered a phase of freezing of expenses, for the failure to approve the budget law. The idea of the president is as confirmed in a post on Truth is to exploit the situation in order to continue with other federal dis…

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Political Wire broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
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