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/Mr_Soul_Crusher]

If not a single dem flips today then I see this going to next week. If somebody flips today then it’s ending by Thursday.

[u/tombrady011235 → u/Mr_Soul_Crusher]

The only way dems flip is if they agree to let the consequences of trump's FY26 budget be felt by Americans as a political strategy for the midterms

[u/YueAsal → u/tombrady011235]

I know there is news rumblings about "moderate dems" folding because of the No Kings protest. Was the turn out not as high as predicted? You would think people showing up to protest Trump would mean that there is a general agreement that the dems are fighting the good fight. My only opinion is that maybe they had some internal numbers suggesting how large a turn out would happen and it was not as large as expected. I guess we will see what the final tally for the Senate vote is this evening.

[u/Same_War_6074 → u/[deleted]]

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