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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. More
Eight states have been warned by the Trump Administration about the legalities of providing furloughed federal employees unemployment benefits during the shutdown.
A watchdog report asserts that General Services Administration lawyers gave possible emoluments clause violations the short shrift in a review of President Trump's hotel lease.
The shutdown, at least of funding, for a quarter of the federal government—including key departments including as the Department of Homeland Security and the IRS—continues to drag on—bumping along to the one-month mark, but back pay has been promised.
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.
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.
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