Shutdown is a huge gamble for Democrats

[Demoerats, from At]support the Trump administration’s continuing resolution proposal.

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VISITORS SIT on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at sunrise on Wednesday. A stalemate led to the federal shutdown on Tuesday night.

(MARK SCHIEFELBEIN Associated Press)

But the current shutdown is already giving Trump administration officials license to resume mass layoffs, this time specifically targeting Democratic states and priorities.

“We'd be laying offa lot of people who are going to be very affected,” Trump said in the hours before the shutdown, adding: “They're going to be Democrats.”

On Wednesday, Russ Vought, Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget and a longtime advocate of concentrated presidential power, wrote on social media that $8 billion in“Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left’s climate agenda” would be canceled to 16 Democratic-majority states, including California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii.

Hours earlier, the Trump administration had frozen roughly $18 billion for infrastructure projects in New York City pending a review that Vought said would “ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles.”

Seeing these actions, Schiff worries about further punitive measures against California. “California, 'm sure, won't be far behind in the kind of vindictive actions ofthe president,” he said.