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5:59Now PlayingDonald Trump has a full meltdown pulling out every lie he can to fearmonger over the government shutdown to cover up Democratic demands for medicaid funding. John Iadarola and Viviana Vigil break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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White House mass firing memo signals Trump would accelerate priorities in a shutdown. Democrats aren’t backing down
"A memo from the White House budget office telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings should the government shut down signaled a dramatic escalation in a funding staredown with fewer potential off-ramps as next week’s deadline nears.
But it also provided the first glimpse of the Trump administration’s internal operational planning that, up to Wednesday night, had been shrouded in a level of secrecy that broke from the approach of past administrations of both parties.
Those efforts center on the agency contingency plans that make up the bespoke guidance documents for the federal workforce in the event of a funding lapse, which have long been posted publicly and updated every few years. The most recent agency plans, submitted during the Biden administration, were pulled offline earlier this year with no explanation."
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