2025-10-16
19 分钟We are in the third week of the government shutdown.
It is already having real impact.
It's caused flight delays, shuttered national parks, federal workers aren't getting paid,
and some of those workers got even more bad news over the weekend.
My phone began exploding with messages from folks across agencies saying they'd been ripped or colleagues had been ripped.
Rift is the federal form of a layoff.
Since the beginning of this administration,
Hannah Nathanson has covered President Trump's efforts to shrink the federal government.
She says Trump is using this shutdown now to cut even more, targeting, quote, Democrat programs.
And it sort of emerged ultimately that Trump had targeted different offices,
but many of which shared a similar mission,
which was to help the nation's most vulnerable populations.
And the effects of those cuts could extend well beyond this shutdown.
From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
I'm Colby Echoitz.
It's Wednesday, October 15th.
The federal government has been shut down for 15 days.
Today,
Hannah shares her reporting on the impact of that and how Trump is using this shutdown to further slash the government.
Hannah, thank you so much for joining me.