A top adviser to Donald Trump echoed the president’s threats of mass federal layoffs across the government if Democrats in Congress do not agree to vote to reopen the government soon.
Kevin Hassett, director of the White House Economic Council, made the warning on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. White House officials spent the past week taking varying positions on whether the president relished causing staff reductions at federal agencies, while the president himself seemed to imply as much.
