White House responds to government layoff criticisms: 'Nobody takes joy in that'
NBC Newsยท2025-10-03 18:43
You've argued that these impending layoffs are necessary to keep essential services up and running, but that has never been the case in any previous shutdown. Even when the government was shut down for 35 days in Trump's first term, you've never had to lay off thousands of workers to keep essential services up and running. So why are layoffs now necessary in this shutdown.Because we have an administration and we have a president who are wholeheartedly focused on restoring fiscal sanity to our government and ...