Trump, budget chief to discuss cuts on day two of US government shutdown
By Andy Sullivan
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said he will meet with his budget director Russell Vought on Thursday to determine which "Democrat Agencies" to cut, in a sign that he could use the second day of the government shutdown to inflict pain on his political opponents.
"I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity," Trump said in a social media post.
Trump has already frozen federal transit and green-energy funding for Democratic-leaning states and has threatened to fire more federal workers during the shutdown, which began on Wednesday due to a partisan standoff in Congress. Trump is already on track to push out 300,000 federal workers by the end of the year.
In his post, Trump mentioned Vought's involvement with Project 2025, a plan by the conservative Heritage Foundation that calls for radically downsizing the federal government. Trump's administration has sought to implement many aspects of that plan, such as dismantling the Department of Education and curtailing the government's power to fight pollution.
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