- Trump’s Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats The New York Times
- Trump administration issues layoff notices to more than 4,000 workers during government shutdown BBC
- “This is a disaster”: Congress erupts at Trump’s shutdown mass firings Axios
- Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown AP News
- Vought sounds layoff siren: ‘The RIFs have begun’ Politico