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White House budget director Russ Vought is projecting that over 10,000 federal employees will be terminated due to the current government shutdown.<\/p>\n

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Vought pledged to \u201ccontinue the RIFs,\u201d alluding to the reduction-in-force notifications issued by agencies to terminate government employees on Friday.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Vought\u2019s statement, a federal judge in California introduced ambiguity into Vought\u2019s commitment by prohibiting the layoffs associated with the closure. The Trump administration will contest that verdict.<\/p>\n

Approximately 4,000 government employees have been terminated, as shown by court documents; however, the budget director anticipates that the total will likely exceed 10,000, as noted by\u00a0Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe want to be very aggressive where we can be in shuttering the bureaucracy\u2014not just the funding, but the bureaucracy\u2014and we now have an opportunity to do that,\u201d Vought added on The Charlie Kirk Show, speaking in his first live interview since the shutdown began.<\/p>\n

Vought anticipated that the layoffs would affect agencies misaligned with the Trump administration\u2019s priorities, including environmental justice initiatives at the Department of Energy and EPA, the Minority Business Development Agency, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.<\/p>\n

The remarks were made a day after President Donald Trump pledged to provide a new list of programs for elimination on Friday, should the shutdown persist until the week\u2019s conclusion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we were opposed to,\u201d Trump said Tuesday. \u201cAnd they\u2019re never going to come back in many cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson warned Wednesday that the Trump administration\u2019s effort to keep military families paid during the ongoing government shutdown is only a temporary fix that could soon expire.<\/p>\n

During a press conference at the Capitol, Johnson said the administration\u2019s move to reroute Pentagon funds to cover military paychecks is a short-term measure that cannot continue indefinitely, Politico\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe problem we have right now is that, in spite of President Trump\u2019s heroic efforts to make sure they get paid, that is a temporary fix,\u201d Johnson told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe executive branch, his help, is not permanent. It can\u2019t be,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd if the Democrats continue to vote to keep the government closed as they have done so many times, then we know U.S. troops are going to risk missing a full paycheck at the end of this month.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration authorized the Department of Defense to use unspent research and development funds to pay active-duty service members during the shutdown, which began earlier this month after the Senate failed to pass a funding measure.<\/p>\n

The move provided temporary relief for military families who were preparing to miss their paychecks.<\/p>\n

Johnson credited the president for taking action, but said the measure does not address the larger problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason that the way they were able to get the troops paid for this paycheck \u2014 and as I said, this is not an enduring solution, because we will run out of the funds \u2014 but there was some unspent funds in, effectively, R&D accounts in defense,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n