Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Trump said Thursday that he would meet with his budget director, Russ Vought, about which “Democrat Agencies” to cut as the federal government has lurched into a shutdown. The federal government’s day-to-day operations are carried out by nonpartisan workers with some federal agencies led by political appointees. But the Trump administration is using the shutdown to take aim at the Democratic Party.