Vice President Vance blamed the rescinded layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and “far left” Senate Democrats, as the government shutdown approaches two weeks.

The Trump administration initially laid off over 1,000 CDC employees on Friday, before reportedly reversing course.

“The government shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos,” Vance told CBS News on Sunday. “We are figuring out how to take money from some areas and give it to other areas. That chaos is because Schumer and the far left Democrats shut down the government.”

The shutdown began on Oct. 1 due to the Senate’s inability to reach an agreement on funding the government.

A Republican-backed proposal, which would have funded the government through No

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