Trump adviser repeats threat of mass federal layoffs as shutdown talks stall out [View all]
Source: The Independent
Sunday 05 October 2025 18:51 BST
A top adviser to Donald Trump echoed the president’s threats of mass federal layoffs across the government if Democrats in Congress do not agree to vote to reopen the government soon.
Kevin Hassett, director of the White House Economic Council, made the warning on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. White House officials spent the past week taking varying positions on whether the president relished causing staff reductions at federal agencies, while the president himself seemed to imply as much.
Hassett, on Sunday, warned that Democrats needed to come to the table on Monday or the White House would take action.
"I think that President Trump and Russ Vought are lining things up and getting ready to act if they have to, but hoping that they don't,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper. Layoffs will begin "if the president decides that the negotiations are absolutely going nowhere." Hassett added that he hoped "we can get the Democrats to see that it's just common sense to avoid layoffs like that."
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No one is telling you to "lay off" anyone. This is ALL ON YOU and you are admitting that it would be the GOP LAYOFFS like it is the GOP SHUT DOWN.
He must have been out on the golf course or something because Democrats have demanded meetings and the GOP House has sent their members home.
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