President Donald Trump has delivered a pointed message to his critics amid the government shutdown and his renewed threat of impending layoffs for federal workers.
Taking to his social media platform, Truth Social, late Wednesday night, Trump shared an image posted by one of his supporters. The portrait of Trump signing a document in the Oval Office was emblazoned with the statement: “Cry all you want. He’s doing exactly what I hired him for.”
Just moments before the repost, Trump delivered a firm message online, seemingly reaffirming that his Administration intends to seize the shutdown as an opportunity to carry out mass layoffs and reshape the federal workforce.
“Republicans must use this opportunity of Democrat-forced closure to clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud,” Trump sta