White House says federal layoffs are 'imminent'
Way Too Early with Ali Vitali
MS NOW, Ali Vitali
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, there could be firings, and that's their fault, and it could also be other things. |
| 0:05.0 | I mean, we could cut projects that they wanted, favorite projects, and they'd be permanently cut. |
| 0:10.0 | So you could say, a lot of people are saying, Trump wanted this, that I wanted this closing, and I didn't want it. |
| 0:16.0 | But a lot of people are saying it because I'm allowed to cut things that should have never been approved in the first place. |
| 0:24.5 | I was President Trump with a not so subtle threat to Democrats as the government remains shut down this morning as lawmakers tangle over key issues, including health care. |
| 0:33.6 | The question is, how do they explain this to the American people? |
| 0:36.7 | And on that note, the dysfunction in D.C. is already shaping the upcoming elections from Virginia to New Jersey. |
| 0:41.9 | The question is, what's the impact going to be at the ballot box? |
| 0:45.6 | Plus, another troubling incident at a busy New York airport as two planes collide while taxiing. |
| 0:51.0 | That's never good. |
| 0:51.9 | But the question is, why does this keep happening? |
| 0:54.1 | It's way too |
| 0:54.7 | early for this. |
| 1:03.9 | Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is watching the pressure build on Capitol Hill. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Ali Vitale on this Thursday, October 2nd, day two of the government shutdown, |
| 1:14.0 | and we'll start with that news. |
| 1:15.5 | After lawmakers adjourned yesterday with no resolution on how to reopen the government, |
| 1:19.8 | we stand here on day two of the shutdown. |
| 1:22.5 | A vote to end, it failed again yesterday as Senate Democrats hold on to demands to fund |
| 1:26.9 | health care subsidies that |
| 1:28.0 | President Trump and Republicans at this point refused to extend. Senators aren't scheduled to vote |
| 1:33.0 | again until Friday. They're taking a break today for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. |
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