Good morning.The vice-president, JD Vance, used false claims to blame Democrats for the government shutdown as the White House warned that worker layoffs were imminent.Federal departments have been closing after a deadlocked Congress failed to pass a funding measure. The crisis has higher stakes than previous shutdowns, with Trump racing to slash government departments and threatening to turn furloughs into mass firings.Vance made false claims about why Democrats had withheld their votes, saying they want “billions of dollars of funding to healthcare for illegal aliens”, which Democrats reject as “Republican LIES”. How many federal workers will be affected?
Vance uses false claims to blame shutdown on Democrats as White House touts imminent layoffs | First Thing
From The Guardian
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