Trump's Shutdown Slasher Aims To Cut Over 10,000 Jobs

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said Wednesday that the Trump administration plans to eliminate more than 10,000 federal positions during the ongoing government shutdown.

Vought, long branded by Trump as the “Grim Reaper,” spent years crafting a sweeping blueprint to dismantle large parts of the federal bureaucracy, a plan allies say should terrify Democrats. Appearing on “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Vought said the administration plans to be “very aggressive” in shuttering government agencies.

“We want to be very aggressive where we can be in shuttering the bureaucracy, not just the funding but the bureaucracy, [so] that we now have an opportunity to do that, and that’s where we’re going to be looking for our opportunities,” Vought said.

Vought said several agencies could face reductions or closures, including environmental programs linked to the Green New Deal at the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice initiatives, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

“We’re gonna keep those rips rolling throughout this shutdown because we think it’s important to stay on offense for the American taxpayer and the American people in getting a government that, if there’s an opportunity to have less bureaucracy,” Vought said.

“Think of Green New Deal programs at the Department of Energy. Think [of] the minority business development agency at Commerce that divvies up business grants on the basis of race. Think environmental justice at EPA. Think about CISA. CISA was an area that we riffed which was participating in censorship [of] the American people.”

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