President Donald J. Trump isn’t wasting a single minute of this government shutdown. On Thursday, he locked arms with White House budget boss Russ Vought to map out massive slashes to the bloated federal bureaucracy—potentially locking in thousands of permanent job losses for the Deep State.

These aren’t just tweaks; they’re a full-on purge aimed square at the heart of what Trump calls “Democrat Agencies.” Think Education Department pushing indoctrination and the EPA chasing climate fairy tales while factories rust.

Fresh off his Truth Social feed, Trump stated: “I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be permanent or temporary.”

Trump followed up by saying: “I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

White House press guru Karoline Leavitt didn’t mince words with the press pack either. She dropped that the layoffs will “likely going to be in the thousands”—piling on top of the 300,000 federal employees and contractors already shown the door earlier this year thanks to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Vought kicked this into high gear last week, demanding Reduction in Force blueprints from every corner of the 3-million-head monster that is the federal civilian workforce. Democrats torpedoed a simple spending patch that could’ve kept the lights on, forcing this reckoning.

Right now, around 750,000 feds are cooling their heels on furlough, per the Congressional Budget Office—though that tally shifts daily like a bad poll. The hits are landing heavy on the usual suspects: the FDA, gearing up to temporarily pink-slip 40% of its 80,000 staffers, and the Education Department, sidelining 95% of its crew except the student loan paper-pushers.

Leavitt made it crystal clear: Trump and Vought are zeroing in on outfits that clash head-on with American values by looking “at agencies that don’t align with the administration’s values.”

This mess kicked off Wednesday when Senate Democrats flexed their filibuster muscle, k*lling a House bill to fund the feds through November 21 at straight-up current levels. It bombed 55-45, with three Dems—Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, and Maine’s Angus King (an independent who works with Democrats) crossing the aisle to back it. Kentucky’s Rand Paul stood alone on the GOP side saying no.

At the root? Democrats digging in their heels for endless pandemic handouts—juicy subsidies propping up Obamacare for 22 million folks. Those perks don’t even sunset until December 31, leaving plenty of runway for real talks. But the GOP’s drawing a hard line against the Dem wishlist: pumping cash back into NPR’s echo chamber and reimbursing hospitals for treating illegals.

That counter-scheme? A $1.5 trillion blowout over a decade, already smacked down twice in the Senate on party lines. Little give-and-take so far, but Republican brass is eyeing more Democrat senators to jump ship and end this charade.

Trump’s team isn’t sitting idle—they’re turning up the heat. Vought hit pause on $18 billion in Transportation bucks for New York’s Gateway Tunnel and Second Avenue subway upgrades, all under the banner of scrubbing out Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion nonsense from the recipients. It’s a direct jab at New York bigwigs like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Not done yet: Vought yanked $8 billion in green-energy slush funds from the Energy Department, targeting 16 blue states like California and New York that bet on Kamala Harris last fall.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) swung by the White House Thursday to huddle with Trump, backing Vought’s grim duty. “Russ does this reluctantly,” Johnson said. “He is not enjoying that responsibility.” But make no mistake—this is the tough love America needs after years of unchecked spending sprees.

The stakes are rising fast. The White House is sounding alarms on hits to big-ticket items like WIC, the lifeline for low-income moms and kids scraping by on nutrition aid. Ali Hard, public policy chief at the National WIC Association, warned ABC that funds might dry up in just one or two weeks without a fix.

This shutdown echoes the 35-day brawl of late 2018 into 2019, when Democrats stonewalled Trump’s border wall push. Back then, he rerouted military cash to get it built, staring down the chaos. Today, with the wind at his back and the people roaring for reform, Trump holds all the cards.

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