White House budget director Russell Vought said on Friday that the Trump administration has begun laying off federal workers, on the 10th day of the U.S. government shutdown .

“The RIFs have begun,” Vought wrote on social media, referring to so-called reductions in force. He offered no other details.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to fire federal workers since government funding ran out on October 1 and suggested they could fall most heavily on “Democrat agencies.”

Labor unions representing federal workers have sued to stop him, saying any layoffs during a shutdown would be illegal.

Roughly 300,000 federal civilian workers will leave their jobs this year due to a downsizing campaign initiated by Trump.

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