President Donald Trump is considering not giving back pay to all federal employees once the government shutdown ends, suggesting it could depend on the worker in the GOP’s latest attempt to force ...

Union leaders and Democratic lawmakers say the move would run afoul of a law adopted under President Trump’s first term. By Tony Romm Reporting from Washington Hundreds of thousands of furloughed ...

President Donald Trump's administration warned on Tuesday of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been a long-standing policy for some 750,000 ...

Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office claimed in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday the Trump administration has no legal basis for refusing back pay to furloughed federal workers, vowing that Democrats will fight to ensure ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that federal workers furloughed during the shutdown should receive back pay, but he also raised the prospect that those payments might not be forthcoming. “I ...

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The Internal Revenue Service, like many agencies around government, has weathered the shutdown by using existing funds to keep employees on the job. By Wednesday morning, however, those funds had run ...