White House says layoffs to begin ‘imminently’

The White House says that the demobilization of the mass workers of American federal workers will start within two days, as legislators are blaming the first closure of the government in nearly seven years.

The closure began on Wednesday after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to agree on a new spending plan before the deadline of the middle of the night.

There is a small sign that any of the sides are ready to settle, and the voting failure to end the closure just hours after starting it.

Since then, the Senate has been postponed, which raised fears that the closure could continue and threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs, as well as the risks that cost billions the American economy in lost production.

In a briefing at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, Vice President JD Vance appeared alongside journalist Caroline Levitte and accused the Democrats of playing political games.

He said: “If they are very concerned about the impact of this on the American people, and they should be, then what they must do is to reopen the government, and not complaining about how to respond.”

Meanwhile, Levitt said the collective cuts within two days. “Sometimes you have to do things that you do not want to do,” she said, adding that “Democrats put us in this position.”

This was the latest in the bitter blame game between the two parties, as the great Democrat in the Senate Chuck Schumer was accusing Republicans earlier of the democratic “bullying” attempt to accept their financing plan.

Democrats want to secure guarantees on health care financing before they agree to the spending agreement, while Republicans want to use a temporary stopping measure to keep the government open until mid -November and finance it at the current levels.

Democrats said they allowed the government to close in an attempt to negotiate to provide health care advantages for low -income Americans. They have said that the efforts made to negotiate with the Republicans on these benefits have not yet succeeded.

“Why are they boycotting the negotiations? I haven’t seen this in my life,” said Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, of the Republicans. “The issue is that the government will open when the Republicans become serious about speaking to the Democrats.”

Meanwhile, Republicans – who control both Congress rooms but have no 60 votes required to pass the financing bill – said that the advantages of health care are not priority, making the government open.

“It is not a matter of whoever wins, who loses, or who is blamed, and all this,” said John Thun, the leader of the Senate John Thun. “It is related to the American people. [Democrats] They took the American people as hostages in a way that they believed to benefit them politically. “

Republicans have also argued that the healthcare extensions that Democrats are looking for will cost US taxpayers more money and were established to manage the complications of the Covid era no longer exist.

Basic workers, like border and army agents, may have to work without a fee for time – but government employees who are considered unnecessary are temporarily placed on an unpaid vacation. In the past, these workers have been retroactive.

Analysts expect this closure be greater than the latter in 2018, when Congress approved some financing bills. They expect approximately 40 % of federal workers – about 750,000 people – for a temporary vacation.

Some workers were leave on Wednesday. But the Trump administration also threatened to lay off federal workers as well.

“Let’s be honest, if this thing continues, we will have to put people,” Vans said during the briefing on Wednesday.

Vans also presented this claim – which Democrats have denied repeatedly – that the closure is the result of the great democrats who defend the advantages of health care to illegal immigrants.

American law has already prohibits unconfirmed immigrants from obtaining any federal backed health care coverage. “The Democrats have not suggested anywhere that we are interested in changing federal law,” said the minority commander in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez.

Russell Fair, the head of the budget at the White House, briefed the Republicans behind the closed doors in the form of imminent workers, although the general details of these plans are few.

In Capitol Hill, there was little appetite for a deal to end the confrontation on Wednesday.

“There is nothing to negotiate. There is nothing that we can get out of this draft law to make it more strict or cleaner than it is,” said Republican spokesman Mike Johnson.

On Friday, another vote on the short -term financing bill suggested by the Republicans.

With additional reports from Bernd Debusmann JR at the White House

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