President Donald Trump has extended the decision on when to fire federal workers as a result of the Democrat government shutdown.
Trump on Tuesday told reporters he will know which permanent jobs are being eliminating “in four or five days,” if the shutdown continues.
“It’ll be substantial,” he said, “and a lot of those jobs will never come back.”
On Oct. 1, presidential press secretary Karoline Leavitt said layoffs would start to occur within two days. She described the cuts as being “imminent, very soon.”
Trump said Sunday that firings are “taking place right now.” Leavitt clarified to The Daily Signal on Monday that he was referring to federal workers who have been furloughed.
“The president was referring to the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have been furloughed as a result of this federal government shutdown, both here at the White House and across the entire federal government,” she said.
“At agencies, across the board, there are federal workers who are staying home. Many of them work in the White House,” she said. “You know them, some of them sit just behind me at those desks. They are not unable to show up to work right now because the Democrats chose to shut the government down.”
A White House Office of Management and Budget memo was leaked, hinting of no guaranteed back pay for furloughed workers.
When asked whether furloughed workers deserve back pay, Trump said it depends which workers were being referenced.
“But for the most part, we’re going to take care of our people,” he said. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of,” he said, adding they’d be taken care of “in a different way.”
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