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The issue is among the last unresolved matters facing negotiators aiming to reconcile before December the House and Senate fiscal 2026 NDAAs.

As the U.S. government’s 2025 shutdown stretches into its 41st day, and several federal workers await relief, the Senate backed the funding bill to reopen the government on Monday. The stopgap measure not only funds agencies through January 2026 but reaffirms retroactive compensation for workers sidelined since Oct. 1.

The latest in a slew of what one official called "creative" ideas by OMB Director Russ Vought.

The administration in court filings said it was holding off firing thousands of federal workers to comply with a temporary restraining order.

Trump’s latest budget maneuver — paying military salaries out of unrelated research funding — makes lawmakers’ appropriations authority practically irrelevant, critics argue.

 Lawsuit claims that firing federal employees during a shutdown is an unlawful abuse of power aimed at punishing workers, pressuring Congress.

Judge says White House office of management and budget took advantage of government shutdown in firing workers

Employees express growing anxiety over their pay – and the future of their jobs – amid the US government shutdown

A new White House budget memo frames shutdown furlough pay withholdings as fiscal restraint, but the budgetary impact is minimal—the greater effect may be expanding executive control over the federal bureaucracy.