Trump adviser repeats threat of mass federal layoffs as shutdown talks stall out

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 05 October 2025 18:51 BST


A top adviser to Donald Trump echoed the president’s threats of mass federal layoffs across the government if Democrats in Congress do not agree to vote to reopen the government soon.

Kevin Hassett, director of the White House Economic Council, made the warning on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. White House officials spent the past week taking varying positions on whether the president relished causing staff reductions at federal agencies, while the president himself seemed to imply as much.

Hassett, on Sunday, warned that Democrats needed to come to the table on Monday or the White House would take action.

"I think that President Trump and Russ Vought are lining things up and getting ready to act if they have to, but hoping that they don't,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper. Layoffs will begin "if the president decides that the negotiations are absolutely going nowhere." Hassett added that he hoped "we can get the Democrats to see that it's just common sense to avoid layoffs like that."

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kevin-hassett-layoffs-shutdown-b2839713.html

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No one is telling you to "lay off" anyone. This is ALL ON YOU and you are admitting that it would be the GOP LAYOFFS like it is the GOP SHUT DOWN.

Hassett, on Sunday, warned that Democrats needed to come to the table on Monday or the White House would take action.

He must have been out on the golf course or something because Democrats have demanded meetings and the GOP House has sent their members home.

[lostincalifornia]

1. All they need to do is layoff the f**king asshle in the WH.

[Raven123]

2. People don't regard a continuation of practice as a new threat

The problem for them is that they have normalized layoffs, so even the MSM isn’t paying attention.

[PSPS]

3. Indeed. Empty threat since they're already doing it and will continue to do so.

Even if they pass a CR that says they will keep the ACA subsidies and other democratic demands, they will never spend the money. The corrupt SC has already said that trump can continue doing his illegal "recissions" and "impoundments."

[Turbineguy]

4. "You're making me be mean!"

Is he a wife beater too?

[Tim S]

5. Let's just call what all these threats are: Domestic Terrorism

“Do what I want or I will make your life miserable”. When that’s said by Americans to an American audience, that’s pretty much the definition of Domestic Terrorism

The Trump Administration harbors many Domestic Terrorists. I wish the MSM would call it what it is.

[louis-t]

6. Translation, do what I say or I'll fire thousands more.

He doesn't mean "come to the table", he means" submit or I will punish you."

[liberalgunwilltravel]

7. Hey, Russ.

Do you think you are invisible? Everyone knows who to blame for the attempted destruction of our republic. And they will come for you.