WASHINGTON — President Trump huddled Thursday with White House budget director Russ Vought to plan for “thousands” of potentially permanent cuts to the federal workforce on the second day of the partial government shutdown .

The terminations, expected to be announced as early as Friday, would hit hardest at “Democrat Agencies,” Trump warned, in reference to ongoing administration efforts to downsize entities such as the Education Department and Environmental Protection Agency.

“I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“I can’t believe the Radical Left Democra

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