Overview

• Trump said on Truth Social that he will confer with OMB Director Russ Vought to identify agencies to cut and to decide whether cuts would be temporary or permanent.
• The planned discussion follows a White House memo warning federal employees they could be fired during the government funding standoff.
• Vought, a principal author of Project 2025, has briefed Republicans and posted that about $8 billion in climate-related funding would be canceled and roughly $18 billion for two New York infrastructure projects would be frozen, according to his statements reported by the Guardian.
• Trump previously wrote that he knew nothing about Project 2025 and had nothing to do with it, later telling Time he did not disagree with everything in the plan.
• Both parties are blaming each other for the shutdown, and Newsweek reports the Senate is out for Yom Kippur, making a quick resolution unlikely before Friday.