President Donald Trump talked tough with the media and the party he rebukes as the “shutdown Democrats” Tuesday, saying some furloughed federal workers “don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.”
The remark can be seen as a threat to massively reduce the federal workforce through outright firings to cut “waste, fraud, and abuse” over what Trump has called Democrat-forced government bloat.
“It depends on who we’re talking about,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Tuesday when asked about the administration’s talk of denying back pay for furloughed workers.
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