Federal agencies roll out new plans for a government shutdown: See you in December?
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10:50 AM - 28 Sep 2015 · Details
(Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
Even as news late Friday of House Speaker John A. Boehner’s resignation dimmed the likelihood of a government shutdown on Oct. 1, federal agencies put out their contingency plans for a closure anyway.
These are the blueprints that every federal office will follow if Congress does not manage to pass a stopgap spending bill to fund the government when the new fiscal year starts Thursday.
And while that possibility seems remote now that Boehner’s departure removes a threat from his party’s conservative wing to topple him over funding for Planned Parenthood, the ideological conflict over abortion will probably be back on the table in mid-December, when the temporary budget expires.
As the conflicts in Congress played out in recent weeks, managers at every federal agency spent much of their time poring over their roster of employees to decide whether the jobs they do should be considered essential to security and safety or expendable during a shutdown.
“We’re hearing there will be a resolution,” said one Defense Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about contingency planning.
[If the government shuts, don’t plan on visiting Yellowstone, financing your home or getting your tax refund ]
“But we can’t count on that,” the official said. “We have to prepare for all three contingencies: a new budget, a temporary budget without new money, or a shutdown.”.................
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