Lawmakers decry shutdown layoffs and the Trump administration’s lack of communication about them

Government Executive ^ | 27/10/25 | Sean Michael Newhouse

[Eleutheria5]

Democrats on the House Education and Workforce Committee expressed opposition Monday not just to layoffs that have occurred since the start of the government shutdown but also the Trump administration’s apparent lack of transparency about which federal employees are being laid off.

“While relevant agencies have confirmed that their staff were impacted, government officials have provided little detail to Congress or the general public, leaving us to rely mostly on media reports and social media posts regarding the dismissal of staff from various agencies,” the lawmakers wrote in a Monday letter urging Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to reverse recent RIFs at the departments of Education and Health and Human Services.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked many of the shutdown layoffs.

The House members criticized HHS for informing the committee four days after undertaking layoffs, the bulk of which were at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Officials rescinded hundreds of those RIF notices, however, that they said were sent in error.

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KEYWORDS: orelse; shutdown; surrender; trump

[Eleutheria5]

If you don't like it, end it. It's blowing up in your face anyway, and Trump is not backing down like you calculated he would.

[Da Coyote]

Eat Obamastuff, slimy DemocRATz. There is no lower status in the multiverse than to be a DemocRAT.

[DownInFlames]

Trump has nothing to do with Congress. They’re headed are separate and have to solve this themselves. He should stay out of it and prepare for martial law.

[DownInFlames]

Trump has nothing to do with Congress. They’re a separate and have to solve this themselves. He should stay out of it and prepare for martial law.

[grobdriver]

the bulk of which were at the Centers for Disease Control

Hooray! A more useless and, in fact, dangerous, agency there never was.

[Eleutheria5]

That’s saying plenty. Even more useless than USAID? Wow.

[no-to-illegals]

prepare for martial law

Dang ….. wonder if can find my guns lost in that boating accident.

[Eleutheria5]

Not a chance. Those are gone forever. Even the ATF can’t find them now.

[JerseyDvl]

Trump isn’t a KING and only Congress controls the purse.

See how this works 😉

[Political Junkie Too]

“While relevant agencies have confirmed that their staff were impacted, government officials have provided little detail to Congress or the general public..."

But they sent out the required RIF notices to the impacted employees, so who cares if YOU didn't get a note from President Trump?

-PJ

[no-to-illegals]

But …. Family is gonna need them or we will be eaten as zombie food.

[grobdriver]

Even more useless than USAID?

More dangerous, anyway. USAID wasted/stole a lot of $$ and lined a lot of politicians' pockets - but never killed anyone.

[Eleutheria5]

But he can TACO and fail to back the Senate and House leadership, hinting he might sign a revised CR with all the free stuff the Dems want, emboldening the Dems and the media, and causing the leadership to cave. That’s their wet dream, but they’re only getting off.

[logi_cal869]

[Liz]

The bulk of shutdown layoffs were to the Centers for Disease Control,
an agency even more useless than the feckless State Dept’s “USAID.”

USAID gave away/wasted/stole tax dollars which handily lined many politicians’ pockets.

[Eleutheria5]

I don’t get the reference.

[Unassuaged]

“World’s tiniest violin” gesture implying mock sympathy from the movie “Reservoir Dogs”.

[logi_cal869]

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