Federal workforce
Funding lapse and shutdown procedures beganBegin the orderly shutdown of work that still needs doing
The government has a shutdown plan and no replacement funding.
- Executive owner
- Donald J. Trump / Office of Management and Budget
- Status
- Funding lapse and shutdown procedures began
- Due
- New appropriations required
- Paying for it
- Affected federal workers, services and program recipients
Entered in the archive 2026-10-16.
ACTIVITY
Record dateAgencies activated the shutdown instructions.
Congress needs to get MOVING!
Employees were told to report for the activities needed to stop reporting.
Very orderly Shutdown, they tell me, I want a very orderly Deal instead..... tremendous amount of Order for a situation where people can't do the Job.
Public Services requested a date to put on the closed sign.
I didn't come here to admire a CLOSED sign.
PUBLIC RECORD
OMB's September 30 memorandum said appropriations expired at 11:59 p.m. that night and directed affected agencies to execute orderly shutdown plans. The October 1 archive date marks the resulting funding lapse; funded or legally excepted work was a separate category.