WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said federal workers could be fired and projects cut if a government shutdown continues, even as he suggested Americans might get rebate checks from new tariff revenues.

“There could be firings, and that’s their fault,” Trump said of Democrats in Congress, when asked in an interview with OAN television network about a recent memo from the Office of Management and Budget that raised prospects of firings.

“We could cut projects that they wanted, favorite projects, and they’d be permanently cut,” he said, adding, “I am allowed to cut things that should have never been approved in the first place and I will probably do that.”

The federal government partially shut down on Wednesday after Congress failed to reach a funding deal, wi

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