8 entries in the ledger
The administration agreed on September 26, 2026, to rescind the policy behind roughly 4,200 reduction-in-force notices issued to federal employees during the 43-day 2025 shutdown, settling a lawsuit by the American...
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed at midnight on February 13, 2026, and a partial shutdown of the department began February 14, affecting more than 260,000 employees across ICE, Customs and Border...
On October 31, 2025, Trump hosted a Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, with guests including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and members of the Trump family dressed in 1920s attire, as federal judges were...
With appropriations lapsed since October 1, the Agriculture Department announced in late October 2025 that it would not issue November benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which serves roughly 42...
In October 2025, amid a government shutdown fight, President Trump claimed Democrats wanted to spend $1.5 trillion on healthcare for people in the country illegally. Fact-checkers found the figure conflated unrelated...
On October 7, 2025, Axios reported on a draft Office of Management and Budget memo arguing that the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act does not automatically guarantee back pay to workers furloughed during the...
On October 1, 2025, the first day of the government shutdown, White House budget director Russell Vought announced that roughly $18 billion in New York City infrastructure funding had been put on hold. The two projects...
The federal government shut down just after midnight on October 1, 2025, after Congress failed to pass appropriations legislation for fiscal year 2026. Senate Democrats repeatedly blocked a Republican continuing...