Deirdre Walsh
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Deirdre Walsh, NPR News.
Usually it's lawmakers who feel pressure from the public to help constituents who rely on programs that are shut down or pay essential workers who are showing up.
But this time it's the Trump administration who's deciding which federal workers get paid
which government programs get infusions of cash to keep operating, Congress is really just on the sidelines.
It's the Office of Management and Budget that's making the decisions.
And the president admits they're targeting agencies that Democrats care about for cuts.
We've seen the Pentagon move around money to pay the military.
The administration has tapped tariff revenue to pay for a program providing nutritional assistance to low-income families.
And OMB is canceling transportation and energy projects targeting blue states and districts.
So what does this mean for Talks on the Hill?
There's just less pressure to get a deal because some of the impacts are not being felt as widely by the public yet.
And instead of Democrats feeling pressure to fold because their projects are being targeted, they're digging in.
saying this is more of the same thing from the Trump administration.
Cuts and layoffs, those were happening before the shutdown.
Most Democrats say what the Trump administration is doing is illegal.
It's Congress that holds the power of the purse.
I talked to Virginia Democratic Congressman James Walkinshaw at a rally on the East Front steps last week,
He supports paying the troops, but says what the administration is doing is just not sustainable.
We are.
The Senate has voted 10 times on the House-passed stopgap bill.
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