Budget chief Russ Vought announced on social media that the administration was following through on threats to fire some of the 750,000 public servants placed on enforced leave.
A court filing revealed the government has terminated more than 4,000 federal workers including over 1,000 each at the Treasury Department and Department of Health and Human Services.
Democratic leaders in Congress dismissed the threats as intimidation tactics and asserted that mass firings would not withstand legal challenges.
Unions representing 800,000 government employees requested a federal emergency order to halt the firings ahead of an October 16 hearing on their legality.
Other departments conducting layoffs included Education, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Homeland Security and Energy according to the court filing.
Adding to the financial pain 1.3 million active-duty military personnel are set to miss their pay due next Wednesday for the first time in modern funding shutdown history.
Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked a Republican resolution to reopen federal agencies over Republican refusal to include health insurance subsidy language.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics rescheduled key inflation data publication to October 24 due to shutdown-related logjams in government data releases.
Consumer price index data will be published to ensure accurate and timely Social Security benefit payments according to the bureau. – AFP
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