Trump administration: Mass firings of federal workers underway | NYGazet

President Donald Trump's White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to pressure Democrats to end the government shutdown.

That is the case five weeks after the end of the “de minimis” exemption that spared packages worth less than $800, according to the United Nations postal agency. Confusion has reigned since the U.S. ended the tariff exemption. In September the Univer... [25093 chars]