
Thousands of federal employees could face layoffs during shutdown
2025-10-02 20:49:47
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Head of the Administration and Budget Office (OMB), President of Russell, President, President and President Donald Trump In the midst of a federal government discounts after legislators in Capitol Hill failed to reach the financing bill in early Wednesday morning.
Trump made the stage before the closure that the federal government is likely to see discounts in the program and programs during the closure, adding in a message on Thursday to the social fact that many federal agencies are a “political fraud”.
Trump published: “I have a meeting today with Ross, which is the fame of the 2025 project, to determine which of the numerous democratic agencies, most of which are a political fraud, and it is recommended, and whether these cuts will be temporary or permanent.”
Here is what Trump wants to do to reshape the federal government during the closure
“I cannot believe that the radical left -wing democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so this may be their way of desire, calmly and quickly, making America great again!”

The head of the administration and budget office, Russell Fior and President Donald Trump, is in the midst of mapping maps for discounts to the federal government after legislators in Capitol Hill failed to reach the funding bill. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press)
Fox News Digital spoke with Richard Stern, Director of the Heritage Corporation at the Gover M Center. Hermann Federal Budget, on Thursday morning to discuss agencies that OMB commander likely to be targeted for employment discounts, and if these cuts are permanent.
How to close discounts
Stern told Fox Digital that there is a pair of overlapping issues that lead to government employment. The agencies are required under various laws to provide some services to citizens. Separately, allocation bills are determined by financing floors on the amount of money provided by the agency to spend on employee salary statements.
However, during the closure, there is an expiry of financing, and this means that agencies do not have “salary floors from the financing bill”, and they are left Executive branch He explained that the estimated authority on how to continue providing the required services to citizens.
“Since the financing bills specify effective floors for each salary spending, this tends to dictate the number of people working in agencies. In the event of stopping the operation, the only condition in the management is to ensure that the agencies provide services or what is required of its required laws.
“They say simply, as you know,“ There is a grant program that must come out of the door under XYZ parameters. ”Therefore, in the event of a conclusion in financing, this means that the administration … can develop a plan that says:“ Hey, see, as you know, we believe that the Ministry of Education, for example, can do everything required legally, but doing so with 10 % of the workforce. ”

If the administration decides that the agency can fulfill its legally required services for citizens who have fewer people, then it will then be sent a discount in notifications, known as RIF, to the employees. (Kevin Lamark/Reuters)
If the administration decides that the agency can fulfill its legally required services for citizens who have fewer people, then it will then be sent a discount in notifications, known as RIF, to the employees.
“If the financing is present, and if the financing law requires these employee levels, you will not be able to RIF,” he said. “But at the end of funding, it gives the White House the opportunity.”
However, the permanent changes in the government in a gray area, because RIFS will not be able to take place until after 60 days.
“Once RIFs come out, you legally need to wait 60 days before RIF notifications are enacted,” Stern continued. “Really, the closure should last 60 days, then, to work actually on RIFS.”
The Heritage Corporation expert, who is also the Acting Director at the Thomas Institute, confirmed. Rowe for economic policy studies, that any employment discounts are not an example of “reducing government”.
“This does not reduce agency activities,” he said. “Don’t reduce what they reduce, and what services they provide. It simply reduces the workforce that provides the same level and the same services.”

The headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC (Getty)
What agencies can be targeted for discounts?
“Thousands of federal employees can be discharged through close.
“See, it is likely to be in the thousands. It is a very good question. This is something that the administration and budget office considers and the entire team in the White House here, unfortunately, work on it today,” Levitte said.
Stern pointed to a handful of agencies that are likely to target workers, citing agencies that “crawled the mission” of their original competence in organizational issues, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as other agencies, such as the National Science Corporation, which deals with granting grants for programs.
“The Ministry of ED is likely to be a type of sticker on this one,” he said. “They were talking about it, they only literally need 10 % or so on the employees.”
He also pointed out that the Environmental Protection Agency, the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Labor may face discounts due to the “task” task to various agencies to A lot of regulations Which is harmful to the economy, which is very harmful to the fair American families. ”
“EPA is more than a decade or so, it has crawled the task of its jurisdiction to more and more organizational affairs. The mere environment protection agency does not have a legal capacity,” he said. “They are organizing outside the borders, and the accusation made by the law, by Congress. So, the Environmental Protection Agency is one of those that make sense to cut many workforce there. Then, in Hood and the Ministry of Labor, you have similar things.”
Stern said that the administration is likely to look forward to agencies such as the National Science Corporation, the National Standing of Arts and Humanities, and certain aspects of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development that is accused of “managing programs that write grants where there is a huge amount of legal appreciation in those who receive grant funds.”

President Donald Trump said that the closure led to the opportunity for the administration to implement workers’ demobilization as part of an ongoing mission to put out the federal government. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press)
“These grants do not serve some constitutional role, or frankly,” he said, adding that the grants often land in the hands of universities and the promotion of “leftist ideology” on topics, such as transgender and climate change.
What Trump said about federal discounts?
Trump said during the various public statements on Tuesday, with the start of the deadline for the deadline, giving him the closure of the administration’s opportunity to carry out operations of workers as part of a continuous mission to rid the federal government and get rid of excessive spending and fraud. However, Trump has repeatedly emphasized that he does not support the closure, which led to the blame for the Democrats.
“We don’t want to close because we have the greatest period of time,” Trump of the Oval Office said on Tuesday. “I tell you, we have 17 trillion dollars invested. So, the last person wants to close is us.
“Now, with the saying of that, we can do things during the irreversible closure, which are considered bad for them and irreversibly by them, such as cutting huge numbers of people, cutting the things they love, and cutting the programs they love,” continued.
The Republicans have suspended the democrats, on the pretext that they refused to finance the budget as an attempt to restore the medical advantages funded by the taxpayers of illegal immigrants. Democrats responded to this claim as a “lie” and to blame the closure of the Republicans.
“A lot of good can come down from closing,” Trump added on Tuesday. “We can get rid of many things that we did not want, and they will be democratic things. But they want open borders. They want men to play in the sport of women. They want transgendering for everyone. They never stop. They do not learn.
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The second administration of Trump highlighted the size of the federal government as swollen since the opening day, including the president who launched the Ministry of Governmental efficiency to get rid of potential fraud, excessive spending and corruption and providing voluntary purchases for federal employees in January to leave their positions before offering other RIF initiatives through various activities.
Fox News Digital has communicated with the OMB office to comment on the expected discounts, but it did not receive a response immediately.
This report contributed to this report.
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