""When you shut it down, you have to do lay-offs. So, we'd be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected," Trump said on 30 September. It's not clear when such lay-offs would begin, whether they would survive legal challenges or how extensive they would be. Even without any shutdown-driven lay-offs, the Trump administration projects that it will cut 300,000 people from the roughly 2.4-million-person federal workforce by the end of the year as part of its efforts to downsize the government."
"In the meantime, the federal government has stopped non-essential operations. Science-agency staff members have been sent home, their research suspended. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) had planned to halt its in-house basic research and stop admitting new people to the NIH hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. If the shutdown lasts more than a few days, it will directly affect non-government researchers: both the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Environmental Protection Agenc y (EPA) would stop awarding new grants."
The US government shut down at 12:01 a.m. ET on 1 October after lawmakers failed to agree on a funding bill. The Trump administration has encouraged mass firings of federal workers during the lapse in funding, and projects cutting 300,000 people from the roughly 2.4-million-person federal workforce by year-end. Non-essential federal operations have stopped, science-agency staff were sent home and research was suspended. The NIH planned to halt in-house basic research and stop new admissions to its hospital, and the NSF and EPA would stop awarding new grants if the shutdown continues.
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