House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is hammering President Trump’s budget director for promising mass firings if the government shuts down.

Jeffries said the threat from Russell Vought, the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), won’t cow Democrats into supporting a GOP spending bill they deem a danger to public health.

He didn’t mince words.

“Listen Russ, you are a malignant political hack,” Jeffries posted Wednesday night on the social platform X. “We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings.

“Get lost.”

Vought, a key player in the Project 2025 effort to gut the federal workforce, is directing federal agencies to........

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