Washington (AP). President Donald Trump, unlike any country he has ever seen, earns this government by giving his budget a rare power of power to choose winners and losers who receive remuneration or dismissed – unprecedented reorganization through federal labor.
When the closure is in the third week, Office and Management and Budge said Tuesday that they are preparing to “cut hatchs” and have more decrease. The president calls the budget chief Russia Grim Reaper, who has been confiscated for the ability to finance Trump priorities by paying the army, while reducing the actions of health, education, science and other fields, and the actions criticized as illegal and faced by the court’s challenges.
“Pay the army, pay law enforcement, continue RIF and wait,” said the omb social media record.
The Congress, a palace led by the Publicons, which refuses to return to the session, and the Senate stuck with unsuccessful voices to renew the government as the Democrats demand the Health Care Fund-Baltus Budget Office quickly filled the emptiness.
From 2025 Project up to the White House
Vounge, Chief Conservative Project 2025 The architect of the political book reorbs the size and scope of the federal government similar to the size and scope of those imagined in the project. This is what some lawmakers, especially Democrats, were afraid if Congress was unable to finance the Government.
Despite closing, Trump’s priorities – to support the army and carry out the agenda of his mass deportation – were continuous. However, employees of health, education, science and other federal departments are dismissed. 750,000 employees are tortured.
“Donald Trump and Russians Vought and all of their crys use this moment to terrorize these patriots,” said Sen. Chris van Hollen, D-Md., Standing with federal staff on Tuesday for the White House Budget Bureau.
Van Hollen said it was a “big fat lie” when the short and his budget director says closing them to fire federal staff. “It’s also illegal and we’ll see them in court,” Van Hollen said.
Shutting is grinding in the third week
Now, on the 14th day, the federal closure quickly becomes one of the longest closure of the government. Congress did not follow October 1. The deadline to adopt the annual appropriation of bills of exchange necessary for the government to finance the Government, as the Democrats required an agreement to preserve the healthcare funds that provide subsidies to people to acquire a prohibition on affordable supervision law.
Chairman of the palace, Mike Johnson, said on Tuesday that he had nothing to negotiate with Democrats before they voted for the government’s renewal.
The Republican Rapporteur congratulated the latest omb actions to pay some employees and dismiss others.
“They have all the rights to transfer the funds,” said Johnson at a press conference at the Capitol. If Democrats want to challenge Trump’s administration in court, Johnson said, “Bring.”
Federal employees usually have funds during funding, traditionally with Back Pay when government funding is restored. However, the Vought Budget Service announced at the end of last week that the reduction of the forces had begun. More than 4,000 employees received announcements on the weekend.
Military salary, exile on the road
At the same time, the short stated the military to find money to prevent the service staff from missing this week. The Pentagon said over the weekend that he could have used $ 8 billion in unused research and development funds to pay.
On Tuesday, the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said her agency relying on a major funding for a short tax reduction law to make sure that the members of the Coast Protection Service, who owns the department, are also paid.
“We, DHS, made an innovative solution to make sure that this did not happen,” the noem said in a statement. Thanks to the “one big beautiful account”, she said, “Until the US Coast Guard Men and Women will not miss the salary this week.”
In the past offices, the management and budget service overseen the plans of agencies through federal funds, ensuring which employees are necessary and still at work. However, Vought continued to take his role, openly talking about his plans to go after the federal workforce.
When the agencies began to develop their closing plans, the Vought omb inspired the heads of departments to consider reducing the possible possible, which is not heard. Mark Paoletta Memorandum, Advisor to the Bureau Bureau, suggested that the workforce could be automatically suitable for pay when the government opens again.
Grim Reaper replaces Elon Musk’s chain saw
Last week, Trump published a video created by AI, depicting Vought, dressed in Cloak and Dagger, a classic rock tuft “(don’t be afraid)) in the background.
“Every authoritarian leader had his own gloomy reaper. Russell Vubt is Donald Trump,” said a spokesman Steny Hoyer, a senior Democrat of Maryland.
Hoyer compared the budget chief with billionaire Elon Musk, who earlier wore a chainsaw as a part of the Government Department of labor, Vought turns his scythe through the federal government as recklessly, “he said.
In many ways, “large, beautiful law, law”, as is commonly called law, gives the White House a huge new distribution of federal funding for its priority projects, separately from the conventional appropriation of the Congress of the Appropriations.
The pack has spent about $ 175 billion for a pentagon, including the Golden Dome missile panel and other priority projects, and another $ 175 million for homeland security, mainly due to a short mass deportation agenda. It also included additional funds for the work of Vought omb.
The Great Act of Trump submits billions
Based on the Non -partisan Congress Budget Service, certain Big Bile funds can be used, which can be used at closing.
“The administration could also decide to use the mandatory funding provided for in the 2025 Accession Act, or to other sources of compulsory funding, funded by those direct appropriations in various agencies,” says the CBO.
CBO cites the Department of Defense, the Treasury Department, the Homeland Security Department and the Management and Budget Service, because among those who received the right funds by law ..
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Associated Press writers Kevin Fred, Stephen Groves and Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.