Previous shutdowns have not resulted in permanent layoffs.Vance uses false claims to pin shutdown blame on Democrats as White House warns of layoffsVance used false claims to blame Democrats for the government shutdown. Making a rare appearance in the White House briefing room, Vance told reporters: “We are going to have to lay some people off if the shutdown continues.”Vance denied workers would be targeted because of their political allegiance but acknowledged there was still uncertainty over who might be laid off or furloughed.Vance said “the Chuck Schumer-AOC wing of the Democratic party shut down the government because they said to us, we will open the government only if you give billions of dollars of funding to healthcare for illegal aliens. That’s a ridiculous proposition.”It is also a false claim.Read the full storyDemocrats and Republicans play blame game over shutdownNational Democratic leaders vowed to take their message to the American people that the blame for the shutdown crisis lies solely with Donald Trump and the Republicans and their attacks on healthcare provisions, as the US entered the first government shutdown in almost seven years.