Lie. Federal employees can be fired during a shutdown. Truth Donald Trump and Russell Vogt are illegally firing federal employees and trying to extort Democrats. Federal judges have even weighed in to try to stop [the illegal firings]. it. Lie. Republicans are trying to fix this. Truth. Speaker Johnson himself admits he has no strategy to end this. Why don't I change my strategy? I don't have any strategy, Manu. (00:43–00:46)
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Asserts that federal judges have intervened to stop illegal firings of federal employees.
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