Vice President JD Vance warned that the federal government will continue to make “deeper cuts” to its workforce amid the ongoing shutdown.
“The longer it goes on, Maria, the more significant they’re going to be,” Vance told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “If you remember, we went nine days before announcing any significant layoffs.”
Claiming that President Donald Trump “wanted to reopen the government,” he added, “He was trying to work with Democrats in order to make that happen. But the longer this goes on, the deeper the cuts are going to be.”
“To be clear, some of these cuts are going to be painful,” he added. “This is not a situation that we relish. This is not something that we’re looking forward to, but the Democrats have dealt us a pretty difficult set of cards.”
In a court filing, the White House budget office said more than 4,000 employees would be fired, noting that the funding situation was “fluid and rapidly evolving.”
