Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., holds a press conference as the government shutdown heads toward its third week, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo)
As the US government shutdown entered its third week, President Donald Trump’s administration has announced that they have fired 4,108 employees since October 1, the day when the shutdown began, according to a statement filed in court by the US Justice Department. In a separate filing last week, the department had estimated the figure to be 4,278, Reuters reported.
The figure of federal workers layoffs was revised downward on Tuesday suggesting that the Trump administration’s initial statement about sweeping job cuts was reportedly too ambitious. The layoffs amount to a fraction of the total US government workforce as the Tr