US EditionTrump sees 'unprecedented opportunity' to cut government during shutdown
- The federal government shutdown entered its second day on Thursday after Congress failed to pass a funding resolution by the Sept. 30 deadline.
- The shutdown resulted from a Senate failure to approve a Republican-backed stopgap funding bill, with Democrats opposing it over healthcare subsidy extensions.
- President Trump met with OMB Director Russ Vought, a key figure in the Project 2025 plan, to discuss which 'Democrat agencies' to cut, seeking temporary or permanent reductions.
- Trump called the shutdown an "unprecedented opportunity" to enact massive federal cuts, while the Congressional Budget Office estimated 750,000 furloughed workers and warned of $15 billion weekly GDP losses.
- The shutdown’s persistence raises economic risks, prompts imminent federal layoffs, and signals a partisan impasse with unclear resolution timing and negotiations stalled.
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Is The Trump Administration Putting Party over Principle in Government Shutdown Cuts? - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
Some critics of government overreach have regularly welcomed United States government shutdowns, arguing that they provide relief — if only temporarily — from spending and bossing around by government that threatens both freedom and prosperity. For them, the announcement from the Donald Trump administration that the government shutdown that started this week could lead to the cancelation of billions of dollars in spending on “clean energy” autho…
Trimming The Fat: Trump Boasts Of Shuttering Government Agencies Amid Shutdown - Worthy Christian News
By Morgan Sweeney | The Center Square (Worthy News) – President Donald Trump has condemned the shutdown and laid the blame squarely at the feet of the “Radical Left Democrats”— in the meantime, he appears to be making the most of it. Trump teased on Truth Social that he would be meeting with Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought to – as he warned Democrats he would do – reevaluate the necessity of various government agencie…
Trump calls shutdown an ‘unprecedented opportunity,’ and eyes deep cuts - West Hawaii Today
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would meet with his budget chief to determine which “Democrat agencies” he could try to cut, relishing the government shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” to achieve his agenda and dismantle federal programs.
Trump calls shutdown an ‘unprecedented opportunity,’ and eyes deep cuts - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would meet with his budget chief to determine which “Democrat agencies” he could try to cut, relishing the government shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” to achieve his agenda and dismantle federal programs.
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