{"id":2497525,"date":"2025-10-10T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-announces-federal-government-layoffs-have-begun\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:27:14","slug":"white-house-announces-federal-government-layoffs-have-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-announces-federal-government-layoffs-have-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"White House announces federal government layoffs have begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-announces-federal-government-layoffs-have-begun%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2497525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House has announced that layoffs of federal government workers have begun as an inevitable result of the ongoing government shutdown. President Donald Trump&#8217;s management confirmed that reduction-in-force (RIF) notices are being sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-members-hand-deliver-letter-to-fettermans-office\/\" title=\"Union members hand deliver letter to Fetterman...s office\">furloughed federal employees<\/a>, with roughly 750,000 workers currently affected. While the exact number of layoffs and the specific agencies impacted have not been disclosed, officials said the layoffs will not affect every department. The administration attributes the shutdown and resulting layoffs to Democratic opposition.Discussions have taken place between President Trump and key officials, including OMB Director Russell vought, about which agencies will face cuts. The layoffs and withholding of back pay for furloughed workers are part of Republican efforts to pressure Democrats into passing a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-bernie-sanders-against-giving-israel-10b-in-aid\/\" title=\"Sen. Bernie Sanders opposes providing B in aid to Israel\">negotiations remain stalled<\/a> as the shutdown nears its second week.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">White House announces federal government worker layoffs have begun<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2369372\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/Donald%20Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s administration announced Friday afternoon that the long-threatened reduction-in-force notices to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taxpayers-pay-400-million-per-day-for-furloughed-workers-cbo\/\" title=\"Taxpayers pay 0 million per day for ...: CBO\">furloughed federal workers<\/a>, in response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government<\/a> shutdown, have started.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The RIFs have begun,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House <\/a>Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought&nbsp;posted on X. <\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3845751\/eight-ukrainian-russian-children-reunited-families-past-24-hours-melania-trump\/\">Eight Ukrainian, Russian children reunited with their families in past 24 hours: first lady<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3845676\/trump-appears-cancel-meeting-xi-jinping-china-trade-war\/\">Trump shelves Xi meeting and escalates trade war against &#8216;very hostile&#8217; China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3845596\/watch-live-melania-trump-announcement-white-house\/\">WATCH LIVE: Melania Trump makes announcement from White House<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The RIFs have begun.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Russ Vought (@russvought) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/russvought\/status\/1976686105199268177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>An OMB spokesperson also confirmed to the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>that the notices have started and claimed they &ldquo;are substantial.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The official did not give an approximate number of workers who will lose their jobs or what agencies will be most impacted by the layoffs. Roughly 750,000 federal workers are currently furloughed.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles ...Anonymous... Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">senior administration official<\/a> said that the layoffs are not in every department and agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3841004\/trump-back-pay-threats-government-shutdown-layoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRUMP&rsquo;S SHUTDOWN WORKFORCE THREATS COULD BACKFIRE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is deeply unfortunate that thousands of people will be laid off as a result of the Democrat shutdown,&rdquo; a senior White House official also told the <em>Washington Examiner,<\/em> reflecting the Trump administration&rsquo;s stance that Democrats are to blame for the layoffs. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, OMB General Counsel Mark Paoletta suggested that the federal government is under no obligation to retroactively pay furloughed federal employees under federal law, in a memo to Vought. <\/p>\n<p>Trump addressed the issue during a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Democrats have put a lot of people in great risk and jeopardy, but it really depends on who you&rsquo;re talking about. But for the most part, we&rsquo;re going to take care of our people,&rdquo; he answered in response to a question about <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >furloughed federal workers deserving back pay<\/a>. &ldquo;There are some people that really don&rsquo;t deserve to be taken care of, and we&rsquo;ll take care of them in a different way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president also met with Vought last week to discuss which federal agencies would be cut amid the ongoing government shutdown.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3834005\/trump-meet-vought-project-2025-fame-determine-agency-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRUMP TO MEET WITH VOUGHT &lsquo;OF PROJECT 2025 FAME&rsquo; TO DETERMINE WHICH AGENCIES TO CUT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I 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,&rdquo; Trump posted on Truth Social, referencing Vought&rsquo;s ties to Project 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The layoffs and threats to slash backpay are part of Trump and Republican leadership&rsquo;s efforts to pressure Democrats to pass a &ldquo;clean&rdquo; continuing resolution to reopen the government.<\/p>\n<p>However, lawmakers on Capitol Hill appear unwilling to find a solution that will reopen the government anytime soon, even as the shutdown approaches a second week. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal worker layoffs begin amid government shutdown, says White House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3421,"featured_media":2497526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/vought-omb.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7906,32857,37421,7970,32127],"class_list":["post-2497525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-announcement","tag-federal-government","tag-job-cuts","tag-layoffs","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/vought-omb.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497529,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497525\/revisions\/2497529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}