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    1 day ago

    This article is crazy it is just covering major newsworthy stuff in like a paragraph because it is the GOP and they are much more organized on messaging

    Trump told reporters at the White House Tuesday afternoon that he’s in favor of shutdown-related RIFs to the federal workforce, and that “when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs.”

    “We’d be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected,” Trump said. “They’re going to be Democrats.”

    “A lot of good can come down from shutdowns,” he added. “We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want.”

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    A mass email assigning blame to congressional Democrats is an unusual step for agencies to take ahead of a funding lapse, and marks an escalation in rhetoric.

    Aka they are telling us they are firing a lot of Democrat employees but it’s okay.