Vice President Vance pleaded guilty layoffs canceled Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and “far left” Senate Democrats at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the government shutdown approaches two weeks.
Earlier, the Trump administration initially fired more than 1,000 CDC employees on Friday Allegedly Reversing course.
“Government shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos,” Vance told cbs news On Sunday. “We’re figuring out how to take money out of some areas and put it into other areas. This chaos is because Schumer and the far left Democrats have shut down the government.”
The shutdown began on October 1 due to the Senate’s inability to reach agreement on government funding.
A Republican-backed proposal that would have funded the government through November 21. voted continuously By all but three members of the Senate Democratic caucus – John Fetterman (Pa.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) and Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with the Democrats. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also voted against the proposal.
On the other hand, all Senate Republicans voted against the Democratic-backed spending bill That would fund the government through October, permanently extend subsidies provided under the Affordable Care Act, and restore nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts.
CDC employees who received layoff notices on Friday included those in charge of the center’s response to the ongoing measles outbreak across the country. According to the latest CDC dataSo far this year, 44 cases have been reported in America.
Washington Post informed However, on Saturday, some layoff notices will be reversed, including those sent to employees working on the measles response who responded to the notices. Ebola outbreak In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, global health leaders, and disease spies.
Amid the shutdown, the Trump administration… fired from job More than 4,100 federal employees, according to a Justice Department court filing On Friday. That didn’t stop Vance from blaming Democrats for the confusion at the CDC.
“If Chuck Schumer and the far-left Senate Democrats are going to shut down the government, that’s going to create some chaos,” Vance said.
