The Trump administration continued its hard line regarding the shutdown on Tuesday, with the Office of Management and Budget threatening to continue the firings of federal workers, or “reductions in force” (RIF), even as it scrambled to shift money to pay the nation’s military members.
“OMB is making every preparation to batten down the hatches and ride out the Democrats’ intransigence,” the Office of Management and Budget posted on X. “Pay the troops, pay law enforcement, continue the RIFs, and wait.”
OMB issued its first round of firings Friday, terminating the jobs of more than 4,000 federal workers. That resulted in an escalation of the standoff with Democrats.
While tens of thousands of government workers are usually furloughed during a government shutdown, this is the first time a government shuttering has been used to execute a large-scale firing of those workers.
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