{"id":220191,"date":"2025-10-12T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220191\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:10:07","slug":"vance-warns-deeper-cuts-ahead-for-federal-workers-as-government-shutdown-enters-12th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220191\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance warns \u2018deeper\u2019 cuts ahead for federal workers as government shutdown enters 12th day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US Vice-President J.D. Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stubborn stalemate in Congress.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Vance warned that as the federal shutdown entered its 12th day, the new cuts would be \u201cpainful\u201d, even as he said the Trump administration worked to ensure the military is paid this week and some services would be preserved for low-income Americans, including food help.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Still, hundreds of thousands of government workers have been furloughed in recent days and, in a court filing on Friday, the Office of Management and Budget said well over 4,000 federal employees would soon be fired in conjunction with the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The effects of the shutdown also grew on Sunday with the Smithsonian announcing its museums, research centres and the National Zoo are temporarily closed going forward for lack of funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe longer this goes on, the deeper the cuts are going to be,\u201d <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/jd-vance?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vance<\/a> said on Fox News\u2019 Sunday Morning Futures.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTo be clear, some of these cuts are going to be painful. This is not a situation that we relish. This is not something that we\u2019re looking forward to, but the Democrats have dealt us a pretty difficult set of cards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Vice-President J.D. Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2139,23,1340,4515,12,2286,124087,11320,681,32812,7231,124086,47536,124085,3,79589,2186,720,29181,21,19,22,20,25,124088,24],"class_list":["post-220191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-america","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-ezra-levin","tag-fox-news","tag-georgia","tag-health-and-human-services","tag-house","tag-indivisible","tag-j-d-vance","tag-national-zoo","tag-news","tag-office-of-management-and-budget","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-smithsonian","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-vice-president","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}