Federal dismissals of imminent workers as the government closes persists

The federal government will soon start to dismiss workers if the government closed persists, Fox News Digital learned.

The director of the Management and Budget Office (OMB), Russ Vought, appealed with the Républicains de la Chambre on Wednesday to discuss how the closure will affect the US government.

He told legislators that power reductions, or “rifs”, meaning workers’ layoffs, were “imminent” and “probably a day or two,” said Fox News Digital.

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The director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought speaks to journalists outside the west wing of the White House on July 17, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Getty Images)

Vought described this decision as Democrats forcing the hand of the Trump administration after the Democrats of the Senate rejected the GOP plan to maintain federal agencies several times.

Chamber Mike Johnson, R-La., Also spoke to defend Vought against left-handed attacks on layoffs, Fox News Digital said.

Johnson said Democratic legislators have put Vought in a “terrible situation” in front to go ahead with the layoffs by rejecting the GOP spending plan and encouraging the Républicains of the Chamber to defend it against these attacks.

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Chamber Mike Johnson is speaking while the leader of the majority of the US Senate John Thune launched during a press conference on the first day of a partial government closure in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2025. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

Vought later described layoffs as decisions that will be made by agency leaders according to the appropriate roles under current levels of spending and under the Budget priorities of the Trump administration, said Fox News Digital.

His new guidelines are taking place after the OMB published a memo earlier this month, ordered the agencies to consider layoffs if the government closed.

The Democrats of the Senate have now rejected the GOP financing plan twice in the last 24 hours, before and after the federal government has concluded a partial closure.

It is not immediately clear if the layoffs begin if there is a breakthrough in bipartite talks, but the Senate will probably not vote on the measure before Friday at the earliest, with the Congress out of session Thursday for the Jewish party of Yom Kippour.

President Donald Trump said that the government was closed on October 1 would likely include mass layoffs and program cuts. (Win McNamee / Getty images)

The bill, which would have given the congress until November 21 to fix the financial priorities of the financial year 2026, adopted the Chamber largely along the parties on September 19.

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The measure would maintain the government largely financed at the current levels for this period, but with an additional $ 88 million in security dollars for legislators, the White House and the Judicial Branch.

Democrats, furious to be widely sidelined in funding discussions, said they would not accept any bill which does not also extend the Obamacare tax subsidies which were improved during the Pandemic COVID-19. These improved subsidies must expire at the end of this year.