Don't you know they're HEROES?
Posted on 10/10/2025 8:32:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The White House began conducting mass layoffs on Friday amid a prolonged government shutdown, including slashing an entire department under the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
The entire staff at the Community Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) received a layoff notice on Friday, an administration official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The program’s elimination comes as White House officials repeatedly warned that the administration would pursue mass firings and budget cuts if Democrats did not reverse course and reopen the government. (RELATED: Democrats Are Terrified Of Trump’s Shutdown Slasher — And They Should Be)
The agency employs 102 full-time staff, according to its most recent annual report, published earlier this year. The CDFI fund claims to “expand economic opportunity for underserved people and communities by supporting the growth and capacity” of financial institutions, but critics have argued the agency has drifted from its mission and become politicized.
“The RIFs have begun,” President Donald Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought wrote on X on Friday, using an acronym for reductions in force. The reduction-in-force plans are expected to impact departments across the government. It is unclear how many federal workers will ultimately receive layoff notices.
Before the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline, OMB directed agencies to draft reduction-in-force plans for individuals employed in programs that have no current funding source nor align with the president’s agenda.
The CDFI fund was targeted because the program illegally doled out awards based on race and espoused left-wing gender ideology and radical climate policies, according to the administration official.
Trump signed an executive order in March restricting federal agencies, including the CDFI fund, to their legally mandated functions, as part of his broader efforts to reduce elements of the federal government determined to be “unnecessary.”
The fund awarded $4.9 million to the...
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I voted for more of this.
Hooray!
CDFI AND CISA on the same day? Officially, that’s a twofer.
Slash and burn baby!!
The Democrats and the Republicans will re-establish this agency later.
It has not been the subject for congressional abolition/repeal. So it lives on.
And predictably, a cabal of leftists federal judges will shortly issue TROs and injunctions that Trump can’t do this.
All Righy then. They ain't appropriating. Fire up the chainsaws and cut like a lumberjack. Due process has been fulfilled.
Another “community” scam and money laundry.
“The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) plays an important role in generating economic growth and opportunity in some of our nation’s most distressed communities. By offering tailored resources and innovative programs that invest federal dollars alongside private sector capital, the CDFI Fund serves mission-driven financial institutions that take a market-based approach to supporting economically disadvantaged communities. These mission-driven organizations are encouraged to apply for CDFI Certification and participate in CDFI Fund programs that inject new sources of capital into neighborhoods that lack access to financing. “
“economic opportunity for underserved people and communities by supporting the growth and capacity”
HOW are these people and communities “underserved.” There are endless charities, government programs, housing resources, welfare, free food, free medical care, free education.
NONE of that exists where I live.
Nice start. Thanks Schmucky.
So long bureaucrats.
Get a real job.
Don't you know they're HEROES?
I am so shamed! I will commit ritual hari-kiri!!
You beat me to it.
Me, too.
Love it! Go Trump and Russ Vought!
CISA is gone ?
But but but who is gonna help Brazil fortify their next election ?
/s
So...are these merely ‘layoffs’ as the report says? Or, are they truly RIF’s?
Big difference in the outcome...
What a load of crap…
You do realize my post omitted the “/s”?
I assumed freepers would “get it” - see post #14.
“expand economic opportunity for underserved people and communities by supporting the growth and capacity”
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