{"id":175413,"date":"2025-10-02T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175413\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:25:09","slug":"us-government-shutdown-updates-trump-wants-to-clear-out-dead-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175413\/","title":{"rendered":"US government shutdown updates: Trump wants to ‘clear out dead wood’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump says he could cut ‘Democrat agencies’published at 14:18 BST<\/p>\n

14:18 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Sakshi Venkatraman
US reporter<\/p>\n

It’s now day two of the US federal government shutdown. <\/p>\n

Just a few minutes ago, President Donald Trump posted on social media, saying he’s focusing on which “Democrat agencies” can be slashed. <\/p>\n

“I can\u2019t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity,” he said on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

This is the first government shutdown in almost seven years, and Trump says Republicans need to use it to their advantage.<\/p>\n

“Republicans must use this opportunity of Democrat forced closure to clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud,” he said overnight, again on Truth Social. <\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said yesterday that mass layoffs of government workers are “imminent”, and federal employees have told the BBC they’re concerned for their futures.<\/p>\n

Democrats and Republicans are trading blame over the shutdown, under which thousands of workers have been put on unpaid leave<\/p>\n

Stick with us for the latest updates and analysis as this situation continues to unfold. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump says he could cut ‘Democrat agencies’published at 14:18 BST 14:18 BST Sakshi VenkatramanUS reporter It’s now day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-175413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}