US EditionWhite House says no shutdown-related layoffs yet, but warns they could come
The White House warns federal layoffs may begin if Senate Democrats do not back the Republican spending bill amid ongoing government funding deadlock.
- On Monday, the Senate rejected a pair of spending resolutions to reopen the government, and the White House warned it could begin initiating federal layoffs if Senate Democrats don't back the Republican spending resolution.
- Last month, the White House Office of Management and Budget sent agencies instructions to prepare reduction in force plans for a possible shutdown next week, directing them to identify programs with lapsed funding.
- Federal agencies remain shuttered, leaving thousands of workers unpaid, as senators voted down both party proposals mostly along party lines and chamber rules require 60 votes with at least seven Democrats.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a Democratic challenge to debate and said the House will not return until the Senate passes the spending extension, while Democrats called layoff warnings intimidation and noted the White House's silence since last Monday.
- The standoff centers on a narrow Senate arithmetic that leaves the GOP short of advancing the bill, as Democrats insist on major health-care concessions including a permanent extension of Obamacare tax subsidies this year and only three Democrats have crossed party lines.
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Susan Collins opposes Trump's layoff threats, but blames Democrats for shutdown impasse
Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said she’s concerned about the Trump administration’s threat to pursue mass layoffs of federal workers during the government shutdown, even as she blames Democrats for the funding stalemate. Collins took only a few questions from the press after a ribbon cutting at a Red Cross center in Portland on Monday, but said she’s in touch with the Office of Management and Budget. “I’ve made that very clear to OMB that I…
White House says no shutdown-related layoffs yet, but warns they could come
The White House on Monday backed off President Donald Trump's assertion that government employees were already being laid off due to the shutdown, but warned job losses could result as the standoff looked set to stretch into a seventh day.
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