President Trump is planning to use the potential Democrat government shutdown, led by Chuck Schumer, to begin more mass layoffs in his administration.

The office of OMB just issued a memo warning agencies that if they are “not consistent with the President’s priorities” and don’t have alternate funding, that they will be laid off.

This obviously puts more pressure on Democrats to come to the table and accept the clean CR, which the House passed earlier this month.

Here’s more from CNBC:

The White House warned federal agencies to prepare for mass firings if Congress does not reach a deal to fund the government before next Wednesday.

A memo released Wednesday by the Office of Management and Budget told agencies whose funding expires Oct. 1 — and which do not have alternative funding sources and are “not consistent with the President’s priorities” — to consider issuing reduction-in-force notices for employees.

The warning ratchets up the pressure on Congress to strike a deal to avert a government shutdown, as thousands of government workers’ jobs could be on the line.

In past shutdowns, federal workers were typically temporarily furloughed until a budget deal was reached.

In 2013, the last year that there was a full government shutdown, about 850,000 employees were furloughed, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

“Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown,” OMB said in the memo, which was first reported on by Politico. CNBC separately obtained the document.

The memo is the latest attempt to pressure Congressional Democrats to agree to a deal with Republicans to avert a shutdown.

“We remain hopeful that Democrats in Congress will not trigger a shutdown and the steps outlined above will not be necessary,” the memo said.

But with just days to go until late Tuesday night, when government funding is set to expire, lawmakers are still far from striking a deal.

Democrats are holding firm on demands that any legislation must include an extension of the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced tax credits, which are currently set to expire at the end of the year.

Earlier this month, the House passed a stopgap spending measure that would have funded the government through Nov. 21. But Senate Democrats blocked the measure.

Democrats quickly condemned the OMB memo.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called it “an attempt at intimidation.”

“Donald Trump has been firing federal workers since day one — not to govern, but to scare,” Schumer said. “This is nothing new and has nothing to do with funding the government,” he said.