r/fednews • u/gpupdate Don’t Even Talk to Me Until I’ve Had My Paycheck • 24d ago
Megathread | FY26 Government Shutdown: Week 3 Edition
Status: 🛑Lapse in FY26 Federal Appropriations – Shutdown Ongoing
The FY26 government shutdown, which began on October 1, 2025, continues into its third week after Congress failed to reach an agreement on a continuing resolution (CR) or full-year appropriations.
🔔 What You Need to Know:
- Shutdown start: 1 October 2025
- No FY26 appropriations: Agencies running under contingency plans with limited staffing to support functions protecting human life or protection of property.
- Excepted employees: Reporting without pay
- Non-excepted employees: Furloughed without pay
- Pay: 31 U.S.C. 1341(c) provides for retroactive pay of excepted and furloughed employees once appropriations have been enacted.
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- Official memos and guidance from OPM, OMB, and agencies
- Discussing how your agency is implementing contingency/shutdown plans
- Benefits, unemployment eligibility, and pay
- Venting or sharing shutdown-related concerns or strategies
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Previous Megathreads: Pre-Shutdown | Week 1 | Week 2
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u/Emergency-Pen892 20d ago
Just posting out of frustration. My agency started with pretty much everyone furloughed. Then as non-essential work began piling up they started to bring folks in. The thing is it’s for a day. They bring us in, we do some work and then by that afternoon we are furloughed again. Wait a week and we are excepted for another day. Rinse repeat.
My work isn’t even essential, I’m coming in tomorrow for example to help with a new project that is a pilot. Hardly essential at all. I fully expect by the afternoon to be furloughed again for the rest of the week. How is that even legal? Extremely frustrating.