White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that layoffs are necessary amid the Democrat-forced government shutdown because of the United States’ exorbitant debt and absence of money flowing into federal coffers.
During her second press briefing of the week, Leavitt matter-of-factly answered a reporter who asked why layoffs were necessary.
“Because we have an administration and we have a president who are wholeheartedly focused on restoring fiscal sanity to our government and doing the right thing by the American taxpayer,” Leavitt detailed.
“We are $37 trillion in debt, and the federal government is currently shut down; there is no more money coming into the federal government’s coffers. And as you’ve also seen since the beginning, in January, this administration is focusing on waste, fraud,
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