Vice President JD Vance warned that the federal authorities will proceed to make “deeper cuts” to its workforce amid the continuing shutdown.
“The longer it goes on, Maria, the more significant they’re going to be,” Vance instructed Fox Information’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “If you remember, we went nine days before announcing any significant layoffs.”
Claiming that President Donald Trump “wanted to reopen the government,” he added, “He was trying to work with Democrats in order to make that happen. But the longer this goes on, the deeper the cuts are going to be.”
“To be clear, some of these cuts are going to be painful,” he added. “This is not a situation that we relish. This is not something that we’re looking forward to, but the Democrats have dealt us a pretty difficult set of cards.”
In a court docket submitting, the White Home price range workplace mentioned greater than 4,000 workers could be fired, noting that the funding state of affairs was “fluid and rapidly evolving.”
Elsewhere in his Sunday interview, Vance continued pointing the finger at Democrats, falsely claiming the shutdown, which started on Oct. 1, is their fault as a result of they had been making an attempt to “force” Republicans to “give health care benefits to illegal aliens.”
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The shutdown kicked off partially because of a partisan argument over Reasonably priced Care Act medical health insurance subsidies which are because of expire on the finish of the yr. If Congress doesn’t decide quickly, premiums will greater than double on common for over 20 million folks enrolled within the well being care program. It’s estimated that 4 million folks will lose their insurance coverage solely.
The final authorities shutdown started on Dec. 22, 2018, throughout Trump’s first time period, and lasted till Jan. 25, 2019.
“Wouldn’t it be great … if the Democrats just opened up the government so that we did not have to make these very difficult decisions,” Vance added.
Watch Vance’s look on “Sunday Morning Features” under.
