Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said she’s concerned about the Trump administration’s threat to pursue mass layoffs of federal workers during the government shutdown, even as she blames Democrats for the funding stalemate.

Collins took only a few questions from the press after a ribbon cutting at a Red Cross center in Portland on Monday, but said she’s in touch with the Office of Management and Budget.

“I’ve made that very clear to OMB that I do not think that those layoffs are fair and that we’ll end up with the agencies not having sufficient personnel to do the mission of the agency,” she said.

Collins, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, voted to confirm Trump’s Office of Management and Budget director, Russell Vought, in February.

Collins said Democrats are to bla

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