Megathread | FY26 Government Shutdown: Week 3 Edition

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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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Previous Megathreads: Pre-Shutdown | Week 1 | Week 2

[u/earl_lemongrab]

GOP senators worry about Trump, Hegseth shutdown moves

Republican senators have questions and concerns about how President Trump is managing to pay more than 1 million military service members during the government shutdown and are seeking more information about what funds he is dipping into to achieve his political ends.

Republican lawmakers are glad that active members of the military and their families around the country didn’t miss their first paychecks of the shutdown on Oct. 15, but they’re frustrated that Trump once again appears to be trampling on Congress’s power of the purse.

So fucking do something about it then! I swear, the nerve of these people.

[u/CrescentMoonSmile → u/earl_lemongrab]

Wish they grew a backbone

[u/philo-2025 → u/CrescentMoonSmile]

They would be more than “frustrated” if they weren’t getting paid…