The funding crisis is in its third week, and the consequences are getting more severe. Americans in red and blue states are ...

About 250 federal workers represented by the National Treasury Employees Union in Western Pennsylvania were furloughed ...

The five-day strike continues for Kaiser Permanente health care workers across California and Hawaii, as they hold pickets on ...

At the White House, Vice President JD Vance warned that federal workforce layoffs would be coming if the shutdown continues, in a break with past precedent of temporary furloughs ... it's not clear ...

The US agency in charge of nuclear weapons is putting most of its workforce on unpaid leave, a top Republican lawmaker warned ...

The White House, led by President Donald Trump, has initiated layoffs across several U.S. government agencies during the ...

A U.S. Department of Education employee leaves the building with their belongings on March 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C., amid mass layoffs. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) A U.S. Department of ...

The federal government initiated a shutdown at midnight Oct. 1, closing hundreds of offices, putting hundreds of thousands of workers on furlough, and forcing others to work without pay. While ...

A furlough is a temporary nonduty, nonpay status. "Essential" employees do not get paid during a shutdown, but they'll receive back pay after. There are more than 30,000 federal employees in Tennessee ...

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The effects of a government shutdown are rippling across the country. On Wednesday, federal workers stayed home from work, national parks prepared to close down, and people seeking services from the ...