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A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to approve new spending for federal agencies. The current spending law, which former President Joe Biden signed in December, expires on March 14.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said it gave no orders to shut down government websites amid confusion over complying with a new Trump administration policy requiring agencies to scrub ...
WHY WOULD THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN? Congress is supposed to allocate funding to 438 government agencies before October 1, the start of the fiscal year. ... Military personnel would remain at their ...
Tens of thousands of United States federal civil service workers have been laid off or fired since the start of the second presidency of Donald Trump.The Trump administration has called this an effort to reduce federal expenditures, shrink the federal payroll, reduce the ability of the government to regulate industry, reduce the role of government in U.S. society, and increase the power of the ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government will shut down this weekend unless Congress comes up with a plan and acts soon. Federal funding expires when the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. Saturday, and ...
(The Center Square) – A looming partial shutdown of the federal government could potentially furlough thousands of workers and disrupt certain services ahead of the busy holiday season ...
In the United States, government shutdowns occur when funding legislation required to finance the federal government is not enacted before the next fiscal year begins. In a shutdown, the federal government curtails agency activities and services, ceases non-essential operations, furloughs non-essential workers, and retains only essential employees in departments that protect human life or ...
The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 (GEFTA) is a United States federal law which requires retroactive pay and leave accrual for federal employees affected by the furlough as a result of the 2018–19 federal government shutdown and any future lapses in appropriations. [1]