[Global Network Reporter Zhao Jiandong] The US federal government's "shutdown" entered its 15th day on the 15th, and the impact of the "shutdown" continued to spread across the United States. According to the British "Guardian" report, the new wave of layoffs caused by the Trump administration's "shutdown" has caused widespread chaos and panic, with a large number of federal employees rushing to find out whether their jobs are still there. In addition, because the authority of the work mailbox was cut off, many employees were unable to check whether they had received a notice of the "layoff list." An anonymous employee from the U.S. Department of Education said: "My colleagues can log on to the government mailbox to find out that they have been laid off. The rest of us are now in a panic and may have been fired but there is no way to know."

According to the report, as of last week, about 4200 federal employees in seven agencies have been fired. Although 700 layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were urgently restored last weekend, the education department has become the hardest hit. The department has more than 4100 employees when taking office, but now fewer than 2000 people have passed through the previous and this layoffs.

The Guardian said that to the chilling heart of federal employees, layoffs were issued the day before the funeral of department director Greg Cole, who had worked in the special education department for 38 years until recently retired. "On the day before the funeral of our supervisor, this is how they treated people with experience in improving the lives of disabled children.""What kind of humanity is this?" Some employees complained.

Gittelman, chairman of the 252 branch of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said the layoffs "will double the harm to vulnerable groups such as disabled students and low-income families." Avila Thomas, chairman of AFGE2139, described the current atmosphere: "This kind of chaos has a serious impact on everyone's physical and mental health. Morality is already low. Now that this is happening, I want to say that no one dares to say they are safe."

The Guardian said that the White House transferred the above issues to the U.S. Federal Budget Office, but the agency never responded. The U.S. Department of Education automatically responded to an email showing that "due to funding interruption, we are currently on leave."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Besant said on a program on the Fox Business Channel on the 13th that "the situation is getting more and more serious" and the government's "shutdown" has begun to affect the real economy and people's lives. He said that in order to ensure military pay, the federal government had to suspend salary payments to other federal employees and service agency employees, including Smithsonian Institution museums and the National Zoo. Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson predicted on the same day that the duration of the "shutdown" may become "the longest in history."