Bianca Facchinei chats with The Hill’s White House columnist Niall Stanage about the IRS firing 6,700 employees Thursday. They also touch on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directing senior Pentagon officials and military leaders to forge plans that would result in an 8 percent cut to the defense budget for each year over the next five years.

The IRS purge was the latest and most extensive batch of firings of federal employees in Philadelphia, part of a nationwide downsizing of the government workforce by the Trump administration that has reportedly hit more than 10,000 workers.