Trump: Meeting Set To Axe ‘Democrat Agencies’
by Leif Le Mahieu, The DailyWire.com, October 3, 2025
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would hold discussions on which “Democrat Agencies” should be cut amid the ongoing government shutdown.
Trump said he will meet with Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, who oversees the allocation of federal funds. The shutdown started on Wednesday after the Senate failed to pass a temporary government funding bill backed by Republicans.
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The meeting follows Trump’s call Wednesday night for Republicans to take advantage of the shutdown as an opportunity “to clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud. Billions of Dollars can be saved.”
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Vought has already moved to suspend or cancel billions of dollars of federal funding following the shutdown. He announced Tuesday that nearly $8 billion in “Green New Scam” funding spent on “the Left’s climate agenda” was being cancelled.
The terminated projects were mainly in blue states like California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
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Following Vought’s announcement, the Department of Energy said that it had terminated 321 financial awards worth $7.65 billion supporting 223 projects. The department said the projects were not economically viable, did not advance the nation’s energy needs, and would not yield a positive return on taxpayer investment.
Vought also said Wednesday that $18 billion in funds for New York infrastructure projects was being frozen. New York Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have spearheaded Democratic resistance to Trump’s government funding proposal.
The big picture: As Axios has documented, the shutdown is only one front in Trump's broader campaign of consolidation.
- Military: In an unprecedented partisan address this week, Trump told more than 800 generals and admirals to prepare for a "war" against domestic "enemies," urging them to treat America's cities as "training grounds."
- Academia: The administration is asking universities to sign a 10-point "compact" that would grant preferential access to federal funding if schools agree to freeze tuition, protect conservative speech, apply strict definitions of gender, limit international students and other Trump priorities.
- Rule of law: Days after Trump publicly pressured Attorney General Pam Bondi to charge his political enemies, the Justice Department indicted former FBI director James Comey. Other Trump foes, including New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), are under investigation.
- Civil society: FBI director Kash Patel severed ties with the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday, accusing the Jewish civil rights group of "functioning like a terrorist organization" after MAGA activists discovered that Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA was listed in its now-removed "Glossary of Extremism and Hate." Trump also has urged the Justice Department to investigate Democratic megadonor George Soros' Open Society Foundations as part of a crackdown on liberal groups following Kirk's assassination.
- Corporate America: Trump demanded last week that Microsoft fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, because she served in the Biden administration — a reminder that even corporate giants aren't immune from political retaliation. Trump had previously called on Intel's CEO to resign over alleged ties to China, but backed off after the U.S. government took a 10% equity stake in the chip-maker.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that Vought had been tasked with reviewing the federal bureaucracy amid the shutdown.
“There are unfortunate consequences to a government shutdown, and the federal government is not receiving any cash at the moment,” she said.
“The Office of Management and Budget has been tasked with looking over the receipts and looking over the budget of the entire federal bureaucracy.”
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