Trump Is Using The Shutdown To 'Terrorize' Federal Workers, Democrats Say [View all]
Source: Huff Post
Oct 14, 2025, 06:05 PM EDT
Congressional Democrats rallied outside the White House on Tuesday to defend furloughed federal workers who were ostensibly laid off by the Trump administration late last week amid the government shutdown.
A dozen lawmakers representing Maryland and Virginia — two states with a large federal workforce — described the “reductions in force,” or RIFs, as the latest bit of mean-spirited and legally dubious management coming from Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought.
“Donald Trump and Russ Vought and all their cronies are using this moment to terrorize these patriotic employees,” said Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, with a group of federal workers standing behind him.
“Firing and threatening to fire federal employees is part of the Trump administration’s campaign to inflict trauma on our federal workers. ‘Trauma’ is not my word,” he added, noting that Vought himself once used the term to describe his goal for civil servants.
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