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(NEXSTAR) — While immoderate employees paid biweekly are successful enactment to person their second of 3 paychecks this period connected Friday, galore national employees won't spot a cheque astatine each arsenic the government shutdown drags on.
As of Tuesday, the authorities shutdown has entered its 21st day, the second specified shutdown to past 3 weeks. Should the shutdown proceed into November, it could attack — and adjacent surpass — the longest connected record.
Without a deal, galore of the 2.4 million-strong national workforce stay without pay. They past received paychecks connected Oct. 10, but that lone covered a wage play done Sept. 30, leaving them without 4 days of pay, essentially.
As NewsNation spouse The Hill reported earlier this month, workers who received partial paychecks were aerial postulation controllers and Transportation Security Administration employees captious for keeping the nation’s airports running.
Some national workers who would different not beryllium paid during a shutdown person received immoderate reprieve, too.
That includes U.S. Coast Guard work members, who are being paid with funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, The Hill antecedently reported. These work members, on with the remainder of the military, were paid past Wednesday. For the second radical of work members, paychecks were disbursed utilizing "approximately $8 cardinal of unobligated probe investigating and valuation funds (RDTE) from the anterior fiscal year," a Defense Department authoritative told The Hill.
A 2nd outgo to servicemembers, should the shutdown continue, seems unlikely, the Associated Press reported past week.
Funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill volition besides beryllium utilized to wage "more than 70,000 sworn instrumentality enforcement officers" nether the Department of Homeland Security, a spokesperson confirmed to Nexstar. That includes officers with Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secret Service Special Agents, and aerial marshals with the TSA.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said these "super checks" — covering "the 4 days lost, their overtime, and their adjacent wage period" — would beryllium dispersed by Wednesday.
FBI Director Kash Patel said past week that FBI peculiar agents would besides inactive beryllium paid, though helium did not accidental wherever funds would beryllium coming from.
Other workers — similar those aerial postulation controllers and TSA agents who received partial paychecks — proceed to enactment without pay. Some of those employees person instead opted not to work, prompting staffing shortages astatine U.S. airports, including successful immoderate of the nation's biggest cities.
Thousands much national employees person been laid off oregon furloughed since the shutdown began, the second including more than three-quarters of the unit astatine the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the U.S.'s atomic stockpile.
The authorities tab for paying furloughed workers portion they are astatine location comes to astir $400 cardinal a day, according to a CBO estimation provided astatine the petition of Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.
Traditionally, those who spell unpaid during shutdowns receive backmost pay erstwhile the stalemate ends. President Trump has, however, threatened to bash distant with that guaranteed backmost pay, contempt a law passed during his archetypal term stipulating that national workers indispensable beryllium paid aft a shutdown.
The medication is besides trying to fire thousands of national workers in agencies that don't align with its priorities. Republican leaders successful Congress person said that's portion of the fallout from a shutdown. Past presidents, however, did not usage shutdowns to prosecute successful wide firings.
The Senate, which was incapable to walk the House-passed continuing solution connected Monday, is scheduled to ballot connected the stopgap backing bill Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
