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Here’s how many feds would stay on the job – both with and without pay – during an upcoming shutdown

65% of the overall civilian workforce would keep working though a shutdown, but hundreds of thousands would receive no pay, according to agency shutdown plans.

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What happens to Open Season during a shutdown?

Federal News Network is answering both common and specific questions on the impacts of a partial government shutdown, including what happens to Open Season,…

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Updated 9/27: Resources to help you better understand a government shutdown

Federal News Network has collected documents and articles from the White House, the Government Accountability Office and the private sector to help federal…

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Government shutdown survival tips from someone who’s been through them

You will survive the government shutdown, if there is one. But it takes some planning and a little knowledge of what to expect. To get some thoughts from…

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Recent Government Shutdown News:

FILE - The U.S. Capitol in Washington is pictured on Friday, August 5, 2022. Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, a compromise less ambitious than Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Future budget resolution made tougher by present ‘laddered CR’

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(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)U.S. Capitol

Congress approves temporary funding and pushes the fight over the federal budget into the new year

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Contract for online business. The concept of electronic signature, e-signing, digital document management, paperless office, and signing business contracts.

Keeping fingers crossed about a potential government shutdown, contractors have a new White House initiative to scrutinize

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FILE - A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

New 25% retention bonuses at Bureau of Prisons only a ‘Band-Aid’ for larger staffing issues

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