House Speaker Mike Johnson dodged repeated questions about whether he supports President Donald Trump’s threat to fire furloughed federal workers as the government shutdown rumbles on.
In an interview with NBC News’ Tom Llamas for Top Story, Johnson sidestepped when asked if he backed Trump’s plan to permanently cut parts of the federal workforce.
Trump has warned that “a lot of those jobs will never come back” if the shutdown continues, but the Louisiana Republican insisted he had not spoken with the president about any job cuts.
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