White House looks for a loophole in the law that ensures federal workers get paid after a shutdown

The memo suggests furloughed workers aren't entitled to back pay, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed.
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Federal employees crowdsource resources to support each other during shutdown

Several nonprofits and state and local governments are offering assistance to civil servants due to the lapse in federal ...

'Total disaster': Some furloughed workers plan to hold garage sales, dip into savings to weather government shutdown

The government shutdown is poised to impose financial pain upon many of them, and could force workers to dip into savings, ...

Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is warning Tuesday of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers ...

Federal workers sue the Education Department over partisan shutdown emails

Employees say their out-of-office messages were changed without their consent to include language blaming Democrats for the ...

Senate returns in search of a deal on sixth day of federal government shutdown

Senators are returning to the Capitol today tasked to strike a deal to fund the federal government and end a shutdown that has sent ripple effects across the country. Follow live updates.

'Schumer shutdown' already cost taxpayers $1.2B in pay to employees not working

The federal government shutdown furloughs 750,000 employees who will receive backpay under a 2019 law, costing $400 million ...

Shutdown spreads uncertainty from furloughed federal workers to broader America

As the first government shutdown in seven years got underway on Wednesday, tens of thousands of federal workers face the risk ...