President Donald Trump, sitting alongside Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office, said he wanted Turkey to cut off purchases of Russian oil.

"I'd like to have him stop buying any oil from Russia while Russia continues this rampage against Ukraine," Trump said. "And they've been fighting, they've lost millions of lives already, and for what? You know, for what? Disgraceful."

Trump has ramped up pressure on other nations to stop buying Russian oil and energy products. At the United Nations General Assembly this week, Trump said Europe had to halt purchases and criticized China and India as the main funders of Russia's war on Ukraine.

President Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of Turkey and Pakistan on Thursday.

Trump will welcome Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at 11 a.m. ET for a bilateral meeting and lunch.

At 3:30 p.m. ET, Trump will sign executive orders.

Later Thursday afternoon, Trump will meet Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

The White House is alerting agencies to prepare for furloughs ahead of a possible government shutdown, but also threatening that mass firings could become permanent if a shutdown is not averted.

"Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown, and we must continue our planning efforts in the event Democrats decide to shut down the government," the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo sent to federal agencies Wednesday said.

The memo directs agencies to make plans for the usual shutdown furloughs. But it also directs agencies to "use this opportunity to consider Reduction in Force (RIF) notices for all employees" who work in programs with discretionary funding that lapses, don't have other sources of funding or do not align with the president's agenda.

Once the shutdown ends, the OMB said that agencies should "revise" those mass layoffs to "retain the minimal number of employees necessary," meaning many of those job cuts could become permanent.

The cuts that OMB is advising agencies to make go far beyond the typical furloughs that a government shutdown typically causes, upping the stakes for negotiations on Capitol Hill.

The government runs out of funding on Oct. 1. There is not currently a clear path forward to keep the lights on. Democrats have said they won't support a clean stopgap measure to keep the government open unless they can secure health care wins.

It's a different position than ten Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, took in March when they voted to fund the government while warning at the time that a shutdown would give OMB the power to make more sweeping federal cuts.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, one day after President Donald Trump's major shift toward Ukraine.

Trump, after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, wrote on social media that he thinks Ukraine could win back its seized land. For months, Trump had said he believed Ukraine would have to cede territory in order to bring an end Russia's invasion.

Trump also said that Russia was a "paper tiger," citing its battlefield failures. Russia quickly pushed back, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying Russia "is a real bear."