WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump said he will meet with his budget director Russell Vought today to determine which “Democrat Agencies” to cut, as he looks to inflict pain on his political opposition in the second day of a government shutdown.

“I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity,” Trump said in a social media post. Trump has already frozen federal transit and green-energy funding for Democratic-leaning states and has threatened to fire more federal workers during the shutdown, which began on Wednesday due to a partisan standoff in Congress.

Trump is already on track to push out 300,000 federal workers by the end of the year.

In his post, Trump mentioned Vought’s involvement with Project 2025, a plan by the conservative Heritage Foundati

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