Posted on 10/14/2025 9:54:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The White House is pledging to fire more federal workers, the next salvo in President Donald Trump’s push to pressure Democrats to sign onto the GOP’s continuing resolution and end the government shutdown.
“OMB is making every preparation to batten down the hatches and ride out the Democrats’ intransigence,” the White House Office of Management and Budget wrote Tuesday on X. “Pay the troops, pay law enforcement, continue the RIFs, and wait.”
The White House has also used the shutdown to cut billions in climate and infrastructure funding earmarked for states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in last year’s election.
Most Senate Democrats have withheld supporting the GOP continuing resolution to bring Republicans to the negotiating table over extending premium tax credits within the Affordable Care Act, with open enrollment set to tee off on November 1. But Republican leadership in both the White House and Congress is signaling the burden is on the holdout Democrats to act.
“We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history unless Democrats drop their partisan demands and passed a clean, no strings attached budget to reopen the government and pay our federal workers,” Speaker Mike Johnson said in a press briefing Monday.
The messaging battle is up for grabs. American voters are more likely to fault the GOP for the shutdown, but they still trust Republicans over Democrats on the economy, according to recent polling.
“Democrats decided to shut down the government because they think free health care for illegal aliens is more important than the American people,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told POLITICO in a statement. “Chuck Schumer may think every day of the shutdown ‘gets better’ for the radical left, but the American people disagree. President Trump is working hard to mitigate the...
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The Republicans need to keep this up. They cannot cave. I pray that President Trump is telling the Republicans in Congress NOT to give in.
Keep those RIFs coming!
What is a RIF?
Reduction in Force - firing people.
Termination of the Democrat RIff-rafF employed by Fedzilla
The filibuster is not a suicide pact. When it suites the POTUS, he’ll direct Thune to engage the nuclear option to save the Republic. It’s ultimately majority rule or anarchy, the Demonrats just want to flip the monopoly board because they have run out of ways to cheat.
Just to be clear when confronted by my lefty neighbors... “Healthcare” for illegals is not part of the ACA, but was part of a supplemental covid package the dems passed and got extended til this past year. The Dems want it reinstated.
Do I have this right?
The White House is talking about RIFs. And talking. And talking.
As long as the Rifed are Obama lackeys.
Maybe President Trump can terminate a few government pensions, starting with Lois Lerner.
<>MSNBC ran a wonderfully encouraging story headlined, ““CDC is over”: RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre.” It was the pandemic department. The subheadline added, “Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses, and collect data.”<>
<>Not only that, but Kennedy closed the CDC’s Washington, DC, branch. Completely. Kaput.<>
<>HHS closed down the entire director’s office at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases — meaning all the center’s leaders.<>
<>One former NCIRD leader felt downright gloomy about it. “CDC is over."<>
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/soaring-hope-monday-october-13-2025
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