The White House began conducting mass layoffs on Friday amid a prolonged government shutdown, including slashing an entire department under the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

The entire staff at the Community Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) received a layoff notice on Friday, an administration official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The program’s elimination comes as White House officials repeatedly warned that the administration would pursue mass firings and budget cuts if Democrats did not reverse course and reopen the government.

The agency employs 102 full-time staff, according to its most recent annual report, published earlier this year. The CDFI fund claims to “expand economic opportunity for underserved people and communities by supporting the growth and capacity” of financial institutions, but critics have argued the agency has drifted from its mission and become politicized.

“The RIFs have begun,” President Donald Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought wrote on X on Friday, using an acronym for reductions in force. The reduction-in-force plans are expected to impact departments across the government. It is unclear how many federal workers will ultimately receive layoff notices.

Before the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline, OMB directed agencies to draft reduction-in-force plans for individuals employed in programs that have no current funding source nor align with the president’s agenda.

The CDFI fund was targeted because the program illegally doled out awards based on race and espoused left-wing gender ideology and radical climate policies, according to the administration official.

Trump signed an executive order in March restricting federal agencies, including the CDFI fund, to their legally mandated functions, as part of his broader efforts to reduce elements of the federal government determined to be “unnecessary.”

The fund awarded $4.9 million to the “Local Initiatives Support Corporation,” which publishes material condemning “whiteness” in community development. It has also supported LGBTQ clinics that provide so-called “gender-affirming hormone therapy” to clients “of any age,” and granted $6.7 million to the Clearinghouse CDFI, which hosted a fashion show promoting transgenderism.

https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/10/trump-admin-fires-entire-agency-in-one-swift-move-amid-schumer-shutdown/

Key Takeaways

Southern states post higher shares of surveyed adults who said they skipped visiting the doctor due to cost reasons in 2023, per CDC data.

Notable amongst them is Texas—highest of all the states—with 18% of respondents being unable to afford healthcare.

Texas has one of the strictest Medicaid eligibility requirements, leaving many working-poor adults uninsured.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/where-americans-cant-afford-healthcare-ranked-by-state/

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The left has always been masterful at using words, costumes, and emotional bait to sell their agenda. They slap friendly, feel-good labels on radical movements and count on the public to fall for it. It’s all marketing.

We’ve seen it a zillion times: a violent, Marxist organization like BLM gets rebranded as “Black Lives Matter,” and if you don’t support it, well, you must be a racist. After all, who doesn’t think black people’s lives matter?

The same trick also applies to Antifa. They call themselves “anti-fascists,” so suddenly, anyone who questions them must be pro-Hitler, right? It’s marketing manipulation 101 and for a while, it worked.

But that game’s getting old. Most sane people have caught on by now. Still, Dems can’t help themselves; they keep trotting out these theatrical stunts.

Case in point: a man named David Black, who calls himself a priest.

Sure, he wears the collar and pretends to play the part. But this guy loves getting maced and pepper-sprayed on camera. It’s his “shtick,” if you will…

Then he uses the photos to make himself look like some tragic, selfless martyr… a kind-hearted priest doing the Lord’s work while Trump’s “ICE Gestapos” allegedly attack him.

That’s the story the left wants you to believe.

The truth about Mr. Black is a lot different from the story the left and the media want you to believe.

The Presbyterian Church has become a prime example of what happens when churches get hijacked by left-wing politics. What was once a traditional, Scripture-based denomination has morphed into a progressive activist hub… more focused on climate change, open borders, and “equity statements” than salvation or moral truth.

It’s no longer about God. It’s about virtue signaling and hiding activism behind a makeshift cross. The church’s leadership has traded the pulpit for the protest line and turned worship into a political rally dressed up as Sunday service…

And that’s where Mr. Black comes in. That’s his so-called “church.”

This is from the website for his “church” in Chicago:

We strive to be radical in both basic senses of the word: (1) unreservedly open to everyone and (2) theologically rooted in a deep, serious tradition. We are multigenerational, multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural. We are queer, trans, straight, nonbinary, and everything in between.

They even indulge in witchcraft.

David Black isn’t some wholesome traditional Christian “priest.” He’s an Antifa radical in a cheap “Spirit Halloween” costume that is bastardizing the true word of God. He’s been playing this little game for years, posing as a man of faith while spouting the same unhinged, extremist rhetoric we’ve come to expect from the black bloc terrorists. And yet, left-wing leaders like Gavin Newsom continue to prop him up as a gentle “activist priest” just trying to help the less fortunate… and then blame Trump for “attacking Christians.”

This entire circus is just another staged stunt to paint President Trump and ICE as “Nazis” and “fascists.” Everyone involved knows exactly who this man is and what he truly represents, which is not Christianity. David Black isn’t a priest… he’s running an activist network disguised as a church. That collar he wears is about as meaningful as a plumber throwing on a stethoscope and calling himself a doctor.

What’s truly disturbing is that the left, the media, and Gavin Newsom all know it, and they don’t care. They’ll lie through their veneers, push propaganda, and play dress-up with radicals if it helps them keep illegals in the country.

https://revolver.news/2025/10/the-truth-about-the-antifa-priest/