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The partial shutdown of the federal government continued, lumbering through a third week—on Friday, Jan. 11, already matching the previous 21-day record for longest shutdown ever. More
With tax filing season colliding with the shutdown, the IRS is bringing back tens of thousands of employees to process returns -- and most IT staffers were already excepted and on the job.
About 9,000 federal employees in the Washington, D.C. metro area have filed for unemployment insurance since the partial government shutdown began just before the holidays.
The Office of Personnel Management announced over the weekend that it will close federal agencies in the Washington, D.C.- metro area not included in the partial government shutdown do to a snow storm.
With the federal government now being in the longest shutdown in history, it may now be illegal based on a precedent set by a previous shutdown.
Federal employees are coming together today to march to the White House in protest of the government shutdown.
The partial shutdown of the federal government continued, lumbering through a third week—on Friday, Jan. 11, already matching the previous 21-day record for longest shutdown ever.
Furloughs and unpaid work have "a rotting effect on morale," said one former agency CFO. "That is an overarching concern in reopening after a shutdown of significant length – and I think we're at that point now."
The chairman of the Homeland Security Committee wants to know how many TSA officers have called in sick during the shutdown after reports of a spike in call-outs.
House Democrats are trying to get individual spending bills passed this week in order to reopen some federal agencies.
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