The government stops while Trump warns against the layoffs of federal employees

The federal government partially closed Wednesday early Wednesday after the Democrats and the Republicans did not conclude an agreement on a funding package.

In the deadline at the midnight deadline to adopt a budget package, President Donald Trump warned that the administration could make “irreversible” modifications to the federal workforce, in particular by a new wave of new layoffs. The president stressed that he and his allies did not want the government to firm, but that he opened the door to a “good” which could result from it.

Senate legislators did not conclude an expenditure agreement over time for the end of the 2025 financial year on Tuesday, after a short -term extension of funding for the 2025 financial year, aimed at maintaining the government open until November 21, adopted the chamber mainly according to the party parties earlier in September.

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The federal government partially closed on October 1, 2025, after the Democrats and the Republicans did not conclude an agreement on a financing package. (@Realdonaldtrump via social social)

Democrats expressed their frustration of being excluded from spending negotiations and, during the exclusion of the GOP bill, improved Obamacare subsidies which were promulgated for the first time in 2021 under President Joe Biden. These subsidies, a measurement of the COVVI-19 era, should be launched at the end of 2025, unless the Congress takes measures, Fox News Digital reported.

The Republicans have since pinned the closure blame on the Democrats, arguing that they have refused to finance the budget as an attempt to restore medical services funded by taxpayers for illegal immigrants through the continuous resolution of Democratic legislators, which would include the extent of tax credits on the expiring Obamacare.

Democratic leaders fell into the affirmations, throwing their own jabs on Trump and republican legislators as the culprits behind the closure and the claims of crushing that they wish to provide health care to illegal immigrants.

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“They say that undocumented people will get these credits,” the head of the Senate minority Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday. “It’s absolutely false. He’s one of the big lies they say.”

President Donald Trump said that the government closed on October 1, 2025 would likely include mass layoffs and programs. (Win McNamee / Getty images)

Trump prevents dismissals on the horizon

Trump said in various public remarks on Tuesday, while the countdown of the midnight deadline had decreased, that although he did not want to close, he presents him for the administration to carry out layoffs within the framework of a continuous mission to refuse the federal government and to disrupt expenses and fraud.

“We don’t want it to stop because we have the biggest period of time,” Trump said at the Oval Office on Tuesday. “I tell you, we have invested 17 billions of dollars. So the last person who wants it is closed is us.”

“Now, that being said, we can do things during the closure that are irreversible, which are bad for them and irreversible by them, like cutting a large number of people, cutting things they love, cutting programs they love,” he continued.

A closure does not give a president of new powers, but rather concentrates discretion at the White House and at the Management and Budget Office on what the executive power continues to work or finish.

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Under the anti -deficiencies law, a federal law which guides the government by closings, federal agencies are not authorized to spend funds, the Government Accountability Office describes, with the exception of a limited set of missions, such as the execution of constitutional duties. Executive power is responsible for interpreting these exceptions.

The director of management and budget management “Russell Vought becomes very popular recently because he can reduce the budget to a level that you could not do otherwise,” said Trump on Tuesday. “So they take a risk by having a closure because, due to the closure, we can do things medically and others, including the advantages. We can reduce a large number of people.”

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., speaks alongside Russell Vought, director of the management and budget office, from left to left, Mike Johnson, R-La., And Vice-President JD Vance, while they are addressed to media members in Washington, September 29, 2025. (Evan Vucci / AP Photo)

Later in the day, Trump once again said that he did not want a closure to take place, but that “a lot of good” could result from it in order to eliminate too many spending by the government, noting “we would free a lot of people who will be very affected”.

“Lots of well can go down closings,” he said. “We can get rid of many things we didn’t want, and they would be democratic things. But they want open borders. They want men to play in female sports. They want transgender for everyone. They never stop. They don’t learn. We have won an election in a landslide.”

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Vought declared an imminent government closure on Tuesday evening before the deadline, blame “the crazy political requests of the Democrats, who include 1 billion of dollars of new expenses”.

“We do not know how long the Democrats will maintain their untenable posture, which makes the duration of the closure difficult to predict,” he wrote in a memo on Tuesday. “In any case, employees should come to work for their next regular service round to undertake ordered closure activities.”

President Donald Trump speaks to a rally of the best American military commanders at the base of the Marine Corps Quantico, Virginia, September 30, 2025. (Evan Vucci / The Associated Press)

Vice-president JD Vance joined the White House press briefing on Wednesday and predicted that it “was not going to be so long of closing”, but people will have to be dismissed.

“We are going to have to make things happen,” he said. “And that means that we will have to sort out certain things, it means that some people will have to be dismissed. And we will try to make sure that the American people suffer as little as possible.”

Vance added that the administration “did not target federal agencies according to policy” for layoffs.

“We are in a closure, which causes problems,” he said. “The troops are not paid. There is nothing that we can do on this subject while the government is closed. But there are essential services that we want to make sure that, as much as possible, they continue to work. This is the principle that makes us advance during the closure.”

Doge and promise Slim Government

The layoffs and programs discounts provided in the midst of the closure follow Trump’s continuing mission to empty the federal government of fraud, corruption and excessive expenses, which first struck the country’s radar in the first days of the administration when Trump launched the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government, as well as previous initiatives of mass licensees.

In January, the administration offered voluntary buyouts for federal employees to leave their positions before deploying a reduction in force initiatives in various agencies to refuse the government.

“We have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who did not show up at work,” Trump said during his spouse in the congress in March. “My administration will recover the power of this inexplicable bureaucracy, and we will again restore real democracy in America.”

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“And any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be immediately withdrawn from its functions, because we drain the marsh,” he added. “It’s very simple. And the days of the rule by non -elected bureaucrats are over.”

Simultaneously to the reduction of efforts and redemptions of force, the technological billionaire Elon Musk was accused of directing the DOGE while the investigators examined the federal agencies in order to limit excessive spending of the government and to eliminate fraud. Doge’s work has become a lightning rod for criticisms among democratic legislators and government employees, who have deposited a certain number of prosecution by trying to end investigations and audits.

Trump repeatedly celebrated Doge’s work during his first months in power, in particular by frequently listing the various “flagrant scams” that the government was funding before Doge’s surveys.

“Twenty-five million dollars to promote the conservation of biodiversity and socially responsible behavior in Colombia. It is Colombia, South America, not the University of Columbia. Of course, it could be worse,” said Trump in February during the CPAC, shaking up various examples. “Forty million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.”

“Forty-two million social changes and behavior in Uganda,” said Trump. “Ten million Mozambique medical circumcisions. Why are we going to Mozambique to do circumcisions?”

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Fox News Digital contacted the White House on Wednesday morning for additional comments on the closure and Trump plans, but did not immediately receive a response.

Elizabeth Elkind of Fox News Digital, Alex Miller and Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.