{"id":13981,"date":"2025-10-02T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-to-talk-with-vought-about-which-democrat-agencies-should-be-cut\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:02:03","slug":"trump-to-talk-with-vought-about-which-democrat-agencies-should-be-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-to-talk-with-vought-about-which-democrat-agencies-should-be-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to talk with Vought about which \u2018Democrat Agencies\u2019 should be cut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that he\u2019ll speak with Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought about which \u201dDemocrat Agencies\u201d should be nixed as the government shutdown enters its second day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seven hundred and fifty thousand federal employees could be furloughed, according to the Congressional Budget Office. But while the dismissals that often accompany shutdowns are generally temporary, Vought\u2019s Office of Management and Budget circulated a memo<\/a> last week asking agencies to prepare major reduction-in-force plans for a shutdown scenario.<\/p>\n

Vought told House Republicans on Wednesday<\/a> that mass firings would kick off \u201cin a day or two.\u201d<\/p>\n

White House officials are seeking to portray any layoffs as a necessary and disciplined step, as Democrats push to extend insurance subsidies for the Affordable Care Act in exchange for their votes on the GOP\u2019s continuing resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they\u2019re so worried about the effect this is having on the American people, and they should be, what they should do is reopen the government,\u201d Vice President JD Vance told reporters at a White House press briefing on Wednesday. \u201cNot complain about how we respond to the fact that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have shut down the government in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Trump has repeatedly suggested that he\u2019s looking forward to the job cuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social. \u201cThey are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!\u201d<\/p>\n

Vought has already announced plans to claw back funding from Democrat-led cities and states. On Wednesday, he wrote on X that the White House was cutting $8 billion in energy funding<\/a> from 16 states, all of which voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. The administration is also threatening to withhold funding for New York City\u2019s Gateway Tunnel project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he\u2019ll speak with Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought about which \u201dDemocrat Agencies\u201d should be nixed as the government shutdown enters its second day. \u201cI have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}