{"id":200407,"date":"2025-10-03T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200407\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:05:14","slug":"how-is-the-government-shutdown-impacting-federal-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/200407\/","title":{"rendered":"How is the government shutdown impacting federal employees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survey: How is the government shutdown impacting federal employees?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:smaller; color:#666666; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">Federal News Network would like to hear from federal employees about their experience, now under a partial government shutdown. Please take our short survey.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/author\/drew-friedman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Drew-Friedman-headshot-e1695303406176-112x112.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/author\/drew-friedman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Friedman<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dfriedmanWFED\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@dfriedmanWFED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                                    October 3, 2025 1:21 pm                                <\/p>\n<p>1 min read<\/p>\n<p>A partial government shutdown <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/government-shutdown\/2025\/10\/government-shutdown-begins-as-nation-faces-new-period-of-uncertainty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is now underway<\/a>, after Congress failed to reach a spending agreement by the Sept. 30 midnight deadline to keep many federal programs and services running.<\/p>\n<p>Every federal employee is affected by a government shutdown in one way or another. Based on <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/government-shutdown\/2025\/09\/heres-a-look-at-federal-agencies-contingency-plans-as-shutdown-looms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">agency contingency plans<\/a>, approximately 750,000 federal employees are currently, or will soon be, furloughed as a result of the lapse in funding. Hundreds of thousands of other federal employees will continue to work, temporarily without pay, for the duration of the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what category you fall under, Federal News Network would like to hear directly from federal employees about their experience, now under a government shutdown. Please consider taking a few minutes to fill out the survey below. All survey responses will be kept anonymous. 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