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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a tense press briefing on Friday, revealing that federal employee layoffs are now “imminent — within a day or two” if the government shutdown continues.
Reporters pressed Leavitt about President Donald Trump’s comments on Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation blueprint for reshaping the federal government. Fox News’ Peter Doocy directly asked whether Project 2025 was now the administration’s plan for shrinking the federal government, following Trump’s earlier campaign statement that he “didn’t know anything about it.”
Leavitt clarified that decisions about cuts or layoffs will be made by the President, his team, and Cabinet officials, but confirmed that agencies are already “identifying where layoffs have to be made.”
The White House faces mounting pressure as non-essential federal workers are bracing for furloughs or possible permanent reductions in force (RIFs). The Senate’s failure to pass a short-term spending agreement has pushed the shutdown into its third day, while Democrats and Republicans remain divided over healthcare subsidy extensions and spending cuts tied to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Most of the federal government shut down Wednesday after the Senate failed to pass a short-term spending agreement. While Republicans control the Senate, they do need some Democratic support to get the 60 votes needed to approve the funding. But Democratic leadership wants any agreement to include an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that millions rely on and to undo cuts made to health spending by President Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in a briefing on Friday that the layoffs to federal workers are happening in “two days, imminent, very soon It’s not unclear, all of those things are very synonymous with one another. These RIFs are unfortunately going to have to happen very soon,” she said, referring to reductions in force.
Non-essential employees are typically furloughed or told to work without pay in a shutdown, and get back pay when they eventually return to work, but the memo suggests there could be permanent layoffs of non-essential employees.
Source: @WhiteHouse
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