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 ...

The government shutdown is poised to enter its second month on Saturday, meaning agencies across government on Friday once ...

As the government shutdown hits its 28th day, hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain furloughed, with Trump ...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Tuesday that the president does not get to decide whether furloughed federal workers are entitled to back pay. “It’s not up to the president,” Kennedy told reporters, ...

Interestingly enough, it was President Donald Trump who signed a law in 2019 that guaranteed retroactive pay after a shutdown. It has been a longstanding policy that federal furloughed employees will ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown stretches on, two Northern Virginia lawmakers are pushing back against what they call unlawful threats to withhold back pay from furloughed federal workers. Rep ...

When the government shuts down, many federal workers go without paychecks, whether they are deemed essential and required to show up for work or whether they're furloughed for the duration of the ...

Alana Hamilton and Lasheta McClellan were sentenced to four years and 11 months in prison and ordered to pay back $1.1 ...