{"id":463476,"date":"2025-09-30T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/463476\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:11:14","slug":"live-updates-trump-threatens-layoffs-ahead-of-government-shutdown-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/463476\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump threatens layoffs ahead of government shutdown deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does each side want?published at 15:26 BST<\/p>\n

15:26 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Anthony Zurcher<\/strong>
North America correspondent<\/p>\n

In terms of the substantive demands from each side, Republicans<\/b> want a short-term extension of current spending levels \u2013 essentially kicking the legislative can a bit farther down the road.<\/p>\n

They’re happy with the way things are going, particularly since the Trump administration has been implementing spending cuts on its own, without the help of congressional budget-setters.<\/p>\n

Democrats <\/b>want that practice to end.<\/p>\n

What’s the point, they wonder, with negotiating spending-level agreements if Trump will just ignore them?<\/p>\n

They also want a firm agreement to renew the government health-insurance subsidies for low-income individuals that expire at the end of the year \u2013 something Republicans have been reluctant to do so far.<\/p>\n

Those are the negotiating positions of both sides, but government shutdown fights are about more than policy \u2013 they’re about politics.<\/p>\n

Republicans think they have the political high ground.<\/p>\n

The party that makes demands in exchange for keeping the government open \u2013 in this case the Democrats \u2013 typically gets the lion’s share of the blame when a shutdown happens.<\/p>\n

Trump and Republican congressional leaders are already claiming that they are the reasonable ones.<\/p>\n

They’re the ones, they say, who simply want to buy more time to negotiate without the adverse consequences of a shutdown.<\/p>\n

Of course, Democrats don’t see it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does each side want?published at 15:26 BST 15:26 BST Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent In terms of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-463476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115294128826833291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}