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Vought says layoffs during shutdown likely to exceed 10,000 people
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking over 10,000 planned layoffs during the shutdown following a union lawsuit alleging unlawful firings.
- On Wednesday, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the Trump administration plans to fire more than 10,000 civilian federal workers during the partial government shutdown on `The Charlie Kirk Show`.
- Vought framed the cuts as part of a shutdown-era plan to continue reductions-in-force throughout the shutdown, targeting specific programs to shrink the federal bureaucracy.
- Court filings last week showed at least 4,000 firings and more than 4,100 planned layoffs at seven departments, while Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said nearly 800 HHS employees were laid off in error.
- A federal judge temporarily blocked the firings after federal employee unions sued, and Judge Susan Illston wrote the unions are likely to succeed on claims that OPM and OMB direction rests on illegal grounds.
- The administration insisted its actions are within authority and argued the court lacks jurisdiction, while Vought said the U.S. Agency for International Development is in its close-out phase and plans to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau within months.
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Federal workforce shutdown cuts will 'probably' exceed 10,000, Vought says
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said in an interview Wednesday on “The Charlie Kirk Show” that many more workforce cuts, known was RIFS or reductions-in-force plans, are planned as long as the shutdown continues.
OMB head says layoffs will be 'north of 10K' as judge blocks cuts
The Trump administration plans to fire more than 10,000 civilian federal workers during the partial government shutdown, White House budget director Russ Vought said Wednesday, just before a federal judge temporarily blocked the government from so-called reductions in force. That estimate, which came in an interview on the Charlie Kirk radio show broadcast from the White House, would more than double the number of planned layoffs the administrat…
‘It’ll Get Much Higher’: Trump’s Budget Chief Previews Future Layoffs
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought isn’t going to let the government shutdown slow his mission of cutting government waste, he said on “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast on Wednesday. A government shutdown “slows down the administration, so the administration can’t do as much of what it was doing on behalf of the American people,” he explained. “We, to the best of our abilities, want to minimize that, that slowdown in momentum,” V…
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