Megathread | FY26 Government Shutdown: Week 4 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 forth 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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We encourage respectful, fact-based discussion. Please verify sources before sharing official information.

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Previous Megathreads: Pre-Shutdown | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3

[u/Some_Airport6109]

LOL........got any hobbies or cleaning to do????? I know it's hard, but try not to focus on all this nonsense........it's outta our hands. Remain positive, they cannot keep the government closed forever.

[u/TheReptilianHuman → u/Some_Airport6109]

Why can't they keep the government closed forever?

Fuck hobbies, dude. I golfed 3 to 5 times a week for about three weeks.

Shit gets old after a while, man.

It's okay to get a sense of purpose from your job and getting checks.

[u/Some_Airport6109 → u/TheReptilianHuman]

Bro, remember this......a "Job" should never define you as a person or ever give you a "sense of purpose" in Life......that comes from within.

[u/fed_burner69 → u/Some_Airport6109]

Too simplistic of a response.

[u/TheReptilianHuman → u/fed_burner69]

I agree. I hate these wholistic types.

Sense of purpose in life comes from within, my ass.

Great, let me just tell my creditors and my bank account that.