Overview

• President Trump said he will meet today with OMB Director Russell Vought to decide which federal agencies he wants to cut and whether cuts would be temporary or permanent.
• Vought has halted roughly $18 billion for New York infrastructure, including the Hudson Tunnel and Second Avenue Subway, and the Energy Department says it terminated about $8 billion in clean‑energy awards across 16 states.
• White House officials signaled layoffs of federal workers are imminent if the shutdown continues, and an OMB memo instructed agencies to prepare reduction‑in‑force plans.
• Unions have sued OMB over layoff threats, New York officials are preparing legal challenges to the funding freezes, and legal experts say a shutdown does not grant authority to abolish agencies or make permanent firings.
• The shutdown stems from a Senate clash over extending Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, as the administration warns of economic damage and presses Democrats to accept its funding plan.