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Live updates: Trump says federal layoffs will be ‘Democrat-oriented’

President Trump on Friday said the ongoing layoffs of furloughed federal workers amid the government shutdown will be “Democrat-oriented.”

“And it will be Democrat-oriented, because we figure, you know, they started this thing,” he said in the Oval Office about the firings and shutdown. “It’ll be a lot.”

The administration offered no specifics on which agencies or how many people would be affected when it announced the layoffs earlier Friday. But at least 4,100 government employees were already laid off. Here is The Hill’s list of agencies affected so far.

The Senate voted against the House GOP bill to open the government Thursday, and the chamber later left for the Columbus Day weekend. The Senate will not return until Tuesday evening.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rebuffed calls Friday morning to bring the House back to Washington, D.C., telling reporters that lawmakers needed to be at home to assist their constituents amid the government shutdown.

Trump earlier in the evening announced that the U.S. will impose a 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods after he issued a stark warning over China’s implementation of rare earth controls, which prompted the stock market to plummet.

“It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History,” Trump posted on Truth Social. The tariffs will go into effect Nov. 1.

He also announced a deal with AstraZeneca to lower drug prices on Friday.

Follow along for live updates.

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