President Donald Trump has vowed to target only “Democrat Agencies” for permanent staffing cuts amid the government shutdown — but the administration’s layoffs so far have affected programs and services that cut across party lines.
The White House on Friday issued thousands of reduction-in-force notices, known as RIFs.
Around 4,200 federal employees from at least eight departments and agencies were affected.
The department sustaining the largest cuts was the Treasury Department, where nearly 1,450 staffers received RIF notices.
The RIFs there included cutting the entire 83-person staff of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, which invests in public-private partnerships to support lower-income communities, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
