President Trump said Monday that more Democratic-supported government programs will be permanently canceled because of the government shutdown.

The White House plans to release a full list on Friday of the “socialist” programs to be axed.

“The Democrats are getting killed on the shutdown because we’re closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we were opposed to,” Mr. Trump said. “And they’re never going to come back, in many cases. So we’re able to do things that we were unable to do before.”

The White House Office of Management and Budget earlier this month canceled $8 billion in funding for green energy projects in 16 states, all represented by Democratic senators.

OMB has also put money for New York and Chicago infrastructure projects on hold to undergo reviews, but has not yet canceled those funds.

Mr. Trump said more government programs will be gutted in the coming days.

“We’re going to have a list of them on Friday, closing up some of the most egregious socialist, semi-communist — probably not full communist, we’re saving that for New York, but semi communist programs — and we’re closing them up,” he said. “We’re not closing up Republican programs because we think they work.”

The Trump administration has effectively shut down some government programs already by laying off federal workers who staff them. Reductions in force announced last week impacted roughly 4,000 federal workers across multiple agencies.

The Education Department has cut nearly all of its staff that handles special education, according to CNN. And multiple outlets have reported that staff for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s violence prevention programs and other full offices at the agency were among those laid off.

OMB warned in a social media post on Tuesday that more reductions in force are coming as it “is making every preparation to batten down the hatches and ride out the Democrats’ intransigence.”

“Pay the troops, pay law enforcement, continue the RIFs, and wait,” OMB said.

The Maryland and Virginia congressional delegations held a press conference Tuesday outside of OMB’s offices in Washington to push back against the mass layoffs.

“Shame on [OMB Director Russell] Vought and Donald Trump,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat, said. “When they tell you that the shutdown is making them fire these federal employees, do not believe it for a moment. That is a big lie.”

“It is also illegal, and we will see them in court,” he added.

Democracy Forward, a left-leaning nonprofit that provides free legal representation, is fighting the latest round of layoffs in court. A hearing on its emergency motion for an injunction to halt the layoffs is scheduled for Wednesday.

“We are going to fight these illegal layoffs, to hold this administration accountable to the law and to make sure that whatever federal workers do once the government is again funded, there are people who have their backs,” said Rob Shriver, managing director of Democracy Forward’s civil service initiative. “We’re rooting and working for their success.”

• Lindsey McPherson can be reached at lmcpherson@washingtontimes.com.