It's day 10 of the government shutdown, and the Trump administration is finally starting to make good on its plans to permanently lay off federal workers.

"RIFs have begun," Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought wrote in a X post on Friday, using the acronym for "reductions for force"—the technical jargon for government layoffs.

The administration has offered no details on the layoffs, beyond the OMB's comment to Semafor that they will be "substantial."

Any permanent firings of government workers during a shutdown would also be unusual. Typically, federal workers are temporarily furloughed when Congress fails to agree on appropriations bills to keep the government open, and then given back pay once funding resumes.

In September, as Politico first reported, Vough

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