'A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear and says stand & deliver or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer.'
...OMB, headed by Project 2025 architect Russell Vought is threatening mass layoffs if Democrats don't fold and vote for the republican budget bill by Oct. 1; legislation which threatens mass cuts in health care for millions of Americans.
White House lays groundwork for mass government firings if there's a shutdown.
The Office of Management and Budget says in a memo that agencies should prepare reduction-in-force plans to accompany furloughs if a spending bill isn't passed next week.
"With respect to those Federal programs whose funding would lapse and which are otherwise unfunded, such programs are no longer statutorily required to be carried out," the memo says. "RIF notices will be in addition to any furlough notices provided due to the lapse in appropriation."
"Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown, and we must continue our planning efforts in the event Democrats decide to shut down the government," the memo says.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-omb-memo-mass-firings-government-shutdown-congress-rcna233590
Democrats dig in after White House layoff threat
"President Trump is engaged in mafia-style blackmail, with his threats ultimately harming the American people,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said in a statement, calling the potential layoffs “likely illegal” and pledging that Democrats will be “fighting back with every tool we have."
Said Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in a succinct social media post, “These weird sickos enjoy cruelty.” Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, added that Trump is a “petty wannabe tyrant.”
“President Trump will try to abuse a shutdown — just like he’s trampled our laws for months — but that doesn’t mean he gets whatever he wants as a result,” Murray said in a statement.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrats-dig-shutdown-white-house-161010153.html
To be sure the money which he demands is my own, and I have a clear right to keep it, but it is no more so than my vote, and the threat of death to extort my money, and the threat of destruction [...] to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.
Abraham Lincoln - Speech at Dover, New Hampshire, March 2, 1860
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