US EditionVance warns ‘deeper’ cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day
The layoffs cut about 20% of the Education Department's workforce, heavily impacting special education programs amid a government shutdown used to pressure Congress.
- Friday's announcement from the Office of Management and Budget said Russell Vought announced 'The RIFs have begun' and confirmed the Education Department's mass layoffs.
- The shutdown began on Oct. 1 after lawmakers rejected a short-term funding fix, prompting thousands of layoffs across the Education Department, Treasury, Homeland Security, HHS, and EPA.
- A union filing says the Education Department RIFed 466 employees, equal to at least 20% of its workforce after shrinking nearly in half earlier this year from just over 4,000 employees.
- Officials said the reductions threaten IDEA administration and monitoring state allocations, with OSERS and OESE layoffs doubling harm to K-12 students as many OSERS offices below senior executives were RIFed Friday.
- Labor unions sued to block mass firings and a hearing is scheduled Wednesday in San Francisco, while U.S. Department of Justice filing shows well over 4,000 federal employees faced notices and Vice President JD Vance warned cuts could deepen.
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Shutdown squeeze ups the odds of a Mass. recession - CommonWealth Beacon
EPISODE INFO HOST: Jennifer Smith GUEST: Mark Williams FACING WAVES OF federal funding cuts, Massachusetts’s financial picture was already looking bleak as October approached. Legislative leaders warned of revenue slowdowns, universities and medical systems identified programs that could be cut or pared back, and the state attorney general’s office continued with a barrage of lawsuits against the Trump administration for grant cuts and immigra…
Breaking down the impact of Trump’s shutdown layoffs of federal workers
By Tami Luhby, René Marsh, Annie Grayer, Sunlen Serfaty, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Douglas Jackson, a service-disabled veteran who was laid off during Friday’s federal government layoffs, couldn’t believe it when he heard the vice president say the Trump administration was being forced to choose between Americans and “federal bureaucrats.” “I’m an Orlando veteran. I’m not a DC bureaucrat,” he told CNN, just days after the White House sent reducti…
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news38.deTrump releases over 4,000 federal officials in the ongoing shutdown to exert political pressure on the democrats.
Johnson: Trump will stop firing federal workers when the government reopens
Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday defended the administration’s Friday night firing of thousands of federal employees, contending that President Trump and Budget Director Russ Vought were compelled by the shutdown to act, and alleged firing federal workers will end when the shutdown does — explanations experts widely reject as unfounded.Asked about the terminations, Speaker Mike Johnson claimed to have little knowledge of them, despite widespread r…
Johnson: Trump Will Stop Firing Federal Workers When the Government Reopens
Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday defended the administration’s Friday night firing of thousands of federal employees, contending that President Trump and Budget Director Russ Vought were compelled by the shutdown to act, and alleged firing federal workers will end when the shutdown does — explanations experts widely reject as unfounded. Asked about the terminations, Speaker Mike Johnson claimed to have little knowledge of them, despite widespread …
Federal Workforce Layoffs Begin Amid Government Shutdown
Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty In today’s episode of Are We Winning? Are We Great Again Yet? The Trump administration has sounded the alarm that the post-government shutdown layoffs have already begun, and federal employees are getting their pink slips. “The RIFs have begun,” White House budget director and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought posted on X Friday afternoon, using an acronym for reductions-in-force. According to the Washington …
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