As the Trump administration uses federal resources to blame Democrats for the government shutdown, President Donald Trump suggested this week that he may use the shutdown to unilaterally carry out more of his authoritarian agenda.

Trump indicated to reporters on Tuesday that he views the shutdown as an opportunity to fire federal workers and eliminate government programs.

“We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want and they’d be Democrat things,” Trump said .

He has previously said that his administration would be “laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected” by the shutdown .

“They’re Democrats, they’re going to be Democrats,” Trump said when discussing who would be targeted.

After negotiations between congressional Democrats and Republicans on a cont

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