WH’s Karoline Leavitt: Federal Government Job Cuts “Likely Going To Be In The Thousands”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday that federal workforce cuts will be in the thousands.
REPORTER: Can you give us an estimate on the amount of federal workers that the Trump administration wants to fire during the government shutdown? Are we talking hundreds? Are we talking thousands? KAROLINE LEAVITT, WHITE HOUSE: Look, it’s likely going to be in the thousands. It’s a very good question. And that’s something that the Office of Management and Budget and the entire team at the White House here, again, is unfortunately having to work on today. These discussions and these conversations, these meetings would not be happening if the Democrats had voted to keep the government open.
