The US federal government has now entered its second day of shutdown, the first in nearly seven years, throwing hundreds of thousands of federal employees into uncertainty. While shutdowns have traditionally meant temporary furloughs with back pay later, the Donald Trump administration is signaling something different this time: permanent job losses could follow within days.

What White House Is Saying On Layoffs?

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said mass layoffs of federal workers were “imminent," suggesting they could begin in “two days, very soon." US Vice-President JD Vance warned that if the shutdown drags on, “we are going to have to lay people off" while US President Donald Trump called the shutdown an “opportunity" to make irreversible cuts as he urged Republicans to

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