A U.S. government shutdown would disrupt many services that Americans rely on and squeeze federal workers
WASHINGTON — — With a midnight deadline approaching, Congress was working to avert aThe House on Saturday approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open as Speaker
In a shutdown, some government entities would be exempt — Social Security checks, for example, would still go out — and other functions would be severely curtailed. Federal agencies would cease all actions deemed nonessential, and many of the federal government's roughlyA look at what could happen in the event of a shutdown Sunday.A shutdown happens when Congress fails to pass some type of funding legislation that is signed into law by the president.
Although employees deemed essential to public safety such as air traffic controllers and law enforcement officers still have to report to work, other federal employees are furloughed. Under a 2019 law, those workers are slated to receive backpay once the funding impasse is resolved.Government funding expires Sunday, Oct. 1, the start of the federal budget year. A shutdown would effectively begin at 12:01 a.m.
While the military's active-duty troops and reservists would continue to work, more than half of the Department of Defense's civilian workforce — roughly 440,000 people — would be furloughed.
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