On Day 13 of the government shutdown, Speaker Johnson feigned ignorance when asked about the mass layoffs being instituted by Russ Vought, the orchestrator of Project 2025.

CBS News reports thousands of workers at seven federal agencies may receive layoff notices.. The layoffs that the Trump administration ( How about the Trauma administration) is calling RIFs, or a Reduction in Workforce notice, which is also hitting the education department severely.

Q: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs, so we are also learning there were significant cuts to staff at the special education services.

Are you comfortable with those cuts?

JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know.

I do know that each of the cabinet secretaries were asked to assist OMB to deter

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