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Federal agency contingency plans lay in wait for shutdown notices

Senators returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday with just a few weeks before a possible partial government shutdown.

By Molly Weisner and Leo Shane III

20 months ago

USCIS postpones planned employee furloughs

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agreed to delay its mass furlough plans for another few weeks, after budget reevaluations.

By Jessie Bur

5 years ago

Nearly 14,000 feds face looming pandemic furloughs

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration services plans to furlough 75 percent of its workforce, unless Congress intervenes.

By Jessie Bur

5 years ago

Some DHS employees could face furloughs even as agency reopens

The Department of Homeland Security could furlough thousands of workers due to plummeting fee revenues during the coronavirus pandemic.

By Jessie Bur

5 years ago

Iran furloughs imprisoned US Navy vet amid virus concerns

Iran has granted a medical furlough to a U.S. Navy veteran who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than a year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday.

5 years ago

Coast Guard spouses keep to tight budgets as shutdown ends

U.S. Coast Guard spouses in southern New England say they’ll continue to spend money cautiously even though the longest government shutdown in U.S. history has ended.

6 years ago

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