And quite frankly, they don't care if Trump would deem this a Democrat program or not. So if these firings are upheld in court, what's the impact of those cuts? So let me just say two things. First, These firings are illegal. They were illegal before the shutdown, and they are illegal after the shutdown. The shutdown gives Donald Trump no more power to lay people off en masse like this than he had before he had no power to do this. (04:05–04:11)
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Asserts that the firings during the shutdown are illegal.
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