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Trump says federal layoffs will be ‘Democrat-oriented’
President Trump on Friday said the ongoing layoffs of furloughed federal workers amid the government shutdown will be “Democrat-oriented.”“And it will be Democrat-oriented, because we figure, you know, they started this thing,” he said in the Oval Office about the firings and shutdown. “It’ll be a lot.”
The administration offered no specifics on which agencies or how many people would be affected when it announced the layoffs earlier Friday. But at least 4,100 government employees were already laid off. Here is The Hill’s list of agencies affected so far.
The Senate voted against the House GOP bill to open the government Thursday, and the chamber later left for the Columbus Day weekend. The Senate will not return until Tuesday evening.
As is often the case with the trump government, something like this has never happened before. Not only are high profile people (Dem's) who have been critical of trump under siege from fatuous lawsuits, Joe lunch pail government worker who happens to be a democrat is too.
With all the constant chaos swirling every day this act of unprecedented, vindictive, petulance against Americans guilty of nothing will not get the attention it deserves. It will simply be added to the list of ways trump is tearing the country apart.
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