Government funding deal would reverse some of Trump's mass federal workers firings

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Despite President Donald Trump says Democrats are "not getting much" successful the authorities backing woody the House is acceptable to ballot connected Wednesday, it does see a proviso that would reverse the firings of thousands national workers that helium carried retired during the shutdown.

Nevertheless, Trump has said he'll "abide" by the woody the Senate passed Monday night.

“Well, the state loses a batch of wealth erstwhile they bash this, and they're not getting much, but cipher gets a lot, but it's terrible,” Trump said during an interrogation with Fox News connected Monday.

To enactment unit connected Democrats, who enactment national workers, the White House had threatened the wide firings would beryllium implemented arsenic portion of a shutdown. Then, connected Oct. 2, conscionable 2 days into the shutdown, Trump posted connected his societal media level that it was "unprecedented opportunity" to marque adjacent much cuts to the government.

Trump adjacent referred to Office and Management and Budget Director Russ Vought arsenic the "Grim Reaper," posting an AI-generated video showing the apical bureaucrat successful a reaper's outfit and wielding a scythe.

“Russ Vought is the Reaper. He wields the pen, the funds, and the brain. Here comes the Reaper,” the dependable successful the AI-generated video sings arsenic Vought walks done the metropolis amid rows of workers.

On Oct. 10, Vought announced wide firings of national workers, galore of whom were furloughed astatine that point, were underway.

More than 4,000 national workers mislaid their jobs astatine agencies crossed the government, including the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security and Treasury.

However, included successful the measurement that would reopen the government, is connection that would reverse firings that person happened since the shutdown began and forestall immoderate much layoffs until astatine slightest the extremity of January.

"I deliberation the White House was progressive successful each of the discussions astir that subject," Senate Majority Leader John Thune said connected Monday erstwhile asked by ABC News whether the president had agreed to that provision.

Trump himself said that helium would spell on erstwhile asked whether he's agreed to reverse the wide firings helium had approved.

"Mr. President, that woody does reverse the wide firings your medication enactment done during the shutdown. Did you motion disconnected connected that and volition you abide by that if this passes?" ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers asked him successful the Oval Office connected Monday.

"Well, I volition be. I’ll abide by the deal. The woody is precise good," Trump responded.

The Trump medication has utilized wide firings of national layoffs arsenic a cardinal instrumentality successful its efforts to reshape the national workforce. From the clip helium took bureau successful January until the extremity of February, much than 200,000 national workers astatine dozens of authorities agencies were fired.

Trump and his apical allies, including Vought, person utilized the firings to propulsion resources from agencies with missions they disagree with, ousting workers they accidental are "not aligned" with the president governmental agenda.

The measure that reopens the authorities besides specifies that Trump's medication would person to springiness backmost wage to each national workers who went without wage during the grounds backing lapse.

The White House had antecedently threatened not to springiness backmost wage to immoderate furloughed employees, utilizing a caller mentation of a instrumentality that Trump himself signed during his archetypal word successful bureau saying the workers indispensable get backmost pay. When asked whether furloughed workers merit that backmost pay, Trump said that it "depends," adding that his medication would "take attraction of our people."

"I would accidental it depends connected who we're talking about. I tin archer you this. The Democrats person enactment a batch of radical successful large hazard and jeopardy, but it truly depends connected who you're talking about. But for the astir part, we're going to instrumentality attraction of our people. There are immoderate radical that truly don't merit to beryllium taken attraction of, and we'll instrumentality attraction of them successful a antithetic way," Trump said erstwhile asked by a newsman connected Oct 7.

ABC News' Karen Travers and Allison Pecorin contributed to this report.

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