Kansas City Federal Workers Hope For MAGA TACO Relief

For context in fairness to all sides . . . 

Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) is a term that gained prominence in May 2025 after many threats and reversals during the trade war U.S. President Donald Trump initiated with his administration's "Liberation Day" tariffs.

However . . .

A pastor shot in the face with a pepper ball by ICE agents can certainly verify that MAGA isn't messing around in Chicago. 

Accordingly . . .

We're sharing this report if only because so many Kansas City federal workers DESPERATELY HOPE FOR SHUT DOWN COMPROMISE & A QUICK RETURN TO WORK . . . Here's a glimpse at the greatest fear for locals . . .

While those plans and others still might come to fruition — the White House budget office recently floated an argument that furloughed workers might not get back pay they’re legally entitled to receive when they return to the job — there’s a growing belief among some in Washington that Trump is getting trigger-shy about adding to the massive disruption and federal workforce cuts that he has already put in place in his second term.

“From the very beginning, when I saw the original memo that [White House budget director Russell] Vought put out threatening the mass firings or mass layoffs, it was clear to me that it was absolute bluster and BS,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D), whose Virginia district includes thousands of federal workers, told The Washington Post. “And by the way, the federal employees that I represent saw it as such as well.” 

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WaPo: Trump threatened shutdown layoffs. So far, he hasn’t followed through.

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