Catenaa, Monday, October 06, 2025- US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will fire Federal workers on Monday if the Democrats do not agree to the spending bill.
From the White House, Trump blamed the Democrats. “It’s up to them,” he said. “Anybody laid off, that’s because of the Democrats.” The administration has been threatening layoffs for days, but officials have offered differing timelines for any action.
With the Senate set to vote late Monday for the fifth time on a stopgap bill to keep the government open through November 21, Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, argued that it was time for Democrats to be “reasonable.”
Democrats say they will not support the bill unless it addresses Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at end of 2025, as well as cuts to Medicaid implemented through Trump’s signature second-term spending law.
Hassett told CNBC that the president and top advisers were closely watching the Senate, which is slated to again vote Monday on a bill to fund the government. Hassett said if that bill fails, Trump’s team in the Oval Office will soon take “sharp measures.”
“If the Democrats refuse to keep the government open, then perhaps the efforts we’ve been making to make government more efficient will even accelerate,” Hassett said, in response to a question about firing federal workers.
Talks to end the shutdown, which began October 01, sputtered at the end of last week. While Republicans control both chambers of Congress, they need support from several Democrats to get the 60 votes needed for a spending bill to clear the Senate.
Democrats insist that their health-care policy demands be added to a stopgap spending bill, while Republicans want those issues to be debated after the government is reopened.
One potential solution is for Republicans to promise a vote on health-care subsides by the end of the year, but so far Republicans have been loathe to do so.
