Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

President Trump is praising the indictment of former FBI director James Comey.

In Pierce Franco-Ordonias reports, Trump has been increasing pressure on the Justice Department to take action against his political enemies.

Minutes after the Justice Department announced the indictment,

President Trump took to social media and declared justice in America.

He went on to call Comey corrupt and one of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to.

The charges against Comey come just days after Trump publicly press for the Justice Department to take

action now on prosecutions against Comey and other political critics. It represents the latest

escalation in a years-long war of words between Trump and Comey, who famously likened the president

to a mob boss. Trump long blamed Comey for appointing a special prosecutor

who investigated contacts between Russia and Trump's 2016 campaign.

Franco Ordonez. NPR News.

And Comey says he's done nothing wrong.

Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, meanwhile, says Trump is weaponizing

the Justice Department. There is a clear through line that everyone sees where he is going after people

that he doesn't like or who have said things that he doesn't like or who have done things to him in the

past. And that is why this is so troubling for the justice system.

Speaking there on CNN, less than a week before federal agencies run out of money, a Trump

administration memo is threatening mass layoffs. And here's Deirdre Walsh has more.

The Office of Management and Budget released a memo, indicating if the

government shuts down next week, it will fire some federal workers instead of putting them on

unpaid leave. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says OMB has already been engaging in what he

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