{"id":306052,"date":"2025-10-15T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306052\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:46:11","slug":"trump-admin-federal-job-cuts-likely-to-be-north-of-10000-vought-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306052\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin federal job cuts likely to be &#8216;north of 10,000,&#8217; Vought says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought speaks in front of TV camera at White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 7, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Kevin Lamarque | Reuters<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration could slash more than 10,000 federal jobs during the government shutdown, White House budget director Russell Vought said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to be very aggressive where we can be in shuttering the bureaucracy, not just the funding,&#8221; said Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We now have an opportunity to do that, and that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re going to be looking for our opportunities,&#8221; he said during an appearance on &#8220;The Charlie Kirk Show,&#8221; which was broadcasting from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has warned that the shutdown, which is now stretching into its third week with no end in sight, will lead to mass firings of federal workers. <\/p>\n<p>The White House said it sent layoff announcements, known as reduction-in-force notices or RIFs, to around 4,200 federal employees on Friday. That number was revised <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.457131\/gov.uscourts.cand.457131.49.2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slightly downward<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But Vought, in Wednesday&#8217;s podcast appearance, said he expects the number of RIFs to grow. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could grow higher,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think we&#8217;ll probably end up being north of 10,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House has shared its rolling RIF estimates in court documents as part of a federal lawsuit filed by unions representing government workers, who seek to block the Trump administration from carrying out the firings during the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>In a hearing in that case on Wednesday, a federal judge said she is inclined to grant that request for now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought speaks in front of TV camera&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":306053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[76,81,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-306052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-breaking-news-politics","10":"tag-business-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115379672439862569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}