Employees in all three branches of government are vulnerable to furlough, or temporary unpaid leave, although each agency makes its own final decisions, according to a report last month by the Congressional Research Service. However, some high-level employees, such as the president and presidential appointees, are not subject to furlough.
For example, exempt workers include those whose work is critical for national security or public health and safety, such as air traffic controllers and border security agents, according to federal guidance. Affected workers may be able to receive pay retroactively, as has happened after past shutdowns, but such payments are not guaranteed, CRS staff said. About , federal workers were furloughed in November ; the next month, nearly , were furloughed and another nearly , worked without pay.
Federal contractors are also likely to be affected. Members of Congress cannot be furloughed, according to CRS. Guidelines direct federal agencies to continue police work and criminal investigations and operate prisons, according to CRS. Work to care for critical patients, oversee food and drug safety, and protect federal research laboratories is also considered essential.
The impact on the Social Security and Medicare entitlement programs is unclear. Delays could be seen in processing new claims, congressional researchers said. One man mowed the lawn outside the national monuments. Chris Cox rose to fame after being spotted mowing the lawn outside the Lincoln Memorial. Cox took over for the U. Park Service employees and was seen mowing the lawn and emptying the area's overflowing trash cans.
Veterans pushed past barricades of the closed WWII memorial. Millions of veterans and their families almost did not receive their benefits. The Veterans Affairs secretary at the time, Eric Shinseki, warned that if the shutdown continued through late October, the agency would not be able to send out compensation checks to 5.
There was an increase in restaurant beverage mostly liquor sales. Beverage sales saw a 3 percent increase during the first week of October compared to the first week of September that year. Shutdownbeards became a thing.
With extra time on their hands and no meetings to look presentable for, some furloughed federal staffers tweeted out pictures of their beards, refusing to shave until Congress ended the shutdown. Next week, the government is scheduled to release results for retail sales, manufacturing and trade inventories and sales, the trade deficit, and inflation.
Financial markets would have a huge problem to deal with if government interest payments on Treasury securities ceased during a federal government shutdown. But the Treasury says that these and its other essential payments would continue, no matter how long Congress takes to agree on a budget.
If the federal government is shut down on Monday, then around , employees won't come to work, according to the Washington Post. These employees will be unpaid for whatever period of time the government is shut down. In other cases, however, like for active-duty military personnel, employees will be continue to be paid during a shutdown, but their checks will be delayed until the government starts back up.
These workers should have a minimal impact on the economy, however. A little bit of spending may be lost for those who go on forced furlough, but other spending would just be delayed for anyone whose pay is deferred until the shutdown ends. In case you were worried about Congress getting paid, you'll be relieved to know that they won't go hungry. Their salaries won't grind to a halt just because they can't agree on a budget.
That is, unless a bill passes before then that would stop their pay in a shutdown scenario. Social services should be largely unaffected.
According to a New York Times roundup on the effects of a shutdown, Social Security payments would continue. Medicare also has some rainy day funding that should cover at least a few weeks of costs. But the National Institute of Health would not admit new patients, and planned research projects would be delayed. It is funded through September.
Food stamps have a different fate. They're provided at the beginning of each month, so they'll be fine unless a shutdown lasts into May. Finally, the federal government provides the funding for extended unemployment insurance benefits. These are very important to millions of long-term unemployed Americans who have exhausted the number of weeks states will provide unemployment insurance. The Treasury has the duty of providing states with the funds to pay extended benefits, and it has indicated that these payments will continue, even if the federal government shuts down.
The energy sector has little to worry about in a government shutdown. The Department of Energy will remain open, since its funding provides at least a few days cushion, according to the Washington Post.
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