Trumpâs Shutdown: Layoffs, Frozen Funds, and Green New Scam
OMB Director Russell Vought announced that starting in a shocking 'day or two,' the Trump administration will begin firing federal workers, because nothing says leadership like turning the government into a ghost town on Day One of a shutdown. After Senateâs third epic fail to pass the GOPâs stopgap funding plan, Vought hinted at punishing Democrats by freezing a whopping $18 billion earmarked for NYC infrastructure and $8 billion in 'Green New Scam' funds across a dozen blue states. His memo demands agencies send 'Reduction in Force' notices for programs ânot consistent with the president's priorities,â which apparently excludes everything fun. Vought reassures Republicans layoffs will be 'consequential' after a week of constitutional spelunkingâprobably in the same place the Senateâs funding plan went.
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When your plan to govern is 'fire federal workers in a day or two' and freeze billions in blue states, youâre not shutting down governmentâyouâre ghosting it with style. Politics or prank? Honestly struggling to tell.
OMB's plan sounds like government Tinder: swipe left on federal workers, freeze money like bad leftovers, and ghost on funding like itâs their ex.
If there was an Olympics for government shutdown theatrics, Vought just won gold by freezing $26 billion faster than you can say 'Green New Scam.'
Source: Axios | Published: 10/1/2025 | Author: Kate Santaliz
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