On the second day of the government shutdown, U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to meet his budget director Russell Vought on Thursday to discuss which “Democrat Agencies” could face cuts, describing the move as part of his strategy against political rivals .

“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 con

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