An employee of the United States Education Department leaves the building with his things on March 20, 2025 in Washington, among mass layoffs. (Photo of Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Washington – Trump administration began to publish plans on the weekend, which describe in detail how hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be twisted during the closing of the government, while others will act without payment.
The updated guidelines give the most significant picture so far how President Donald Trump and the Director of the White House budget of Russ Vaught Hope to reduce the size and scope of the government when he received increased authority in relation to the federal workforce During the expiry of financing.
The closure will start on Wednesday, unless the Republicans and Democrats in the Congress reach an agreement on the Act on alloy expenditure. Congress leaders were to meet with Trump on Monday afternoon, but it was unclear whether this would cause it to be closed.
. Defense Department plan It shows that he would stop around 406,500 out of 741,500 civilian employees working without remuneration during closure, and the others took place in Furlough.
Almost 2.1 million military staff in the section will continue to operate at all times, but would not receive paying only after completion.
The plan says that the Department of Defense believes that operations are aimed at securing the southern border of the US, operations in the Middle East, Golden Dome for America The defense system, conservation maintenance, vessel construction and critical ammunition are “the highest priorities” in the event of closing.
Medical and dental services, including care in the private sector as part of the Tricare Health Care Program, would largely remain in the Department of Defense, although “(e) a limitty operation and other routine/planned procedures in medical and dental facilities are generally not except for activities, unless the postponement or delay of such procedures affects the readiness of staff.”
Thousands of employees who will be sent home from HHS
Department of Health and Social Welfare Furlough plans About 32,500 out of almost 80,000 employees during closure.
Different HHS elements – including the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health – have individual closure plans.
Medicare and Medicaid service centers plan to stop 3311, i.e. 53%of their employees during closing and “maintain the staff necessary to make payments to qualifying States for the health insurance program for children (ChIP).”
CDC plans to have 4,891, i.e. 35.88%of its employees, as well as toxic substances working at the agency and a register of diseases.
Emergency plans say that “(r) esponses to urgent explosions of diseases and constant efforts to support the president of the emergency plan in the field of AIDS (Pepfar) assistance, the World Trade Center (WTC), the program of employing professional employees.
CDC would not be able to carry out several other actions, including the provision of “guidelines for state and local health departments implementing society health programs (e.g. preventing opioid overdose, HIV prevention, diabetes prevention).”
Departments with plans
Here is a list of departments that published updated emergency plans in September:
- Department of Defense Emergency plan
- Education Department Emergency plan
- Health and human services Emergency plan
- Internal Security Department Emergency plan
- Department of Work Emergency plan
- Department of Justice Emergency plan
- Social security administration Emergency plan
- Treasury Department Emergency plan
Here is a list of departments that did not publish updated emergency plans from Monday afternoon:
- Emergency plan of the Department of Agriculture
- Emergency plan of the Trade Department
- Emergency Energy Plan
- Emergency plan of apartments and city development
- Emergency plan of the Interior Department
- Emergency plan of the State Department
- Emergency plan of the Transport Department
- Emergency plan of the Veteran Department
States Newsroom Washington, DC Bureau He reached departments that did not have emergency plans to ask when they could become public.
The USDA spokesman wrote We -mail Department “is prepared for all unforeseen activities regarding the activities of departments, including critical services and support.”
A spokesman for the State Department said that the leadership “undergoes all necessary planned efforts to maintain critical missions.”
Federal employees who work without remuneration will be paid after closing.
According to Office of Personnel Management – the Main Agency for Human Resources of the Executive Department – “After the end of the funds, employees who were annulled as a result of the passage will receive retrograde remuneration for these periods.”
. Government act on straightforward treatment of 2019. It requires government employees to receive remuneration as a result of closing the government.
This law does not apply to federal contractors who have uncertainty in receiving payment during closure.
Ashley Murray, Ariana Figueroa, Shauneen Miranda and Jacob Fischler contributed to this report.
