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3 days agoExclusive: White House finds 11th-hour shutdown workaround to pay troops - for now
The OMB located roughly $5.3 billion across three accounts to cover military pay during the shutdown.
The White House's Office of Management and Budget upended normal shutdown planning this week when it issued a memorandum that instructed agencies to implement mass layoffs of their workforces if Congress fails to act before the deadline. Specifically, OMB said, agencies should prepare reduction-in-force notices for all employees whose work is funded directly through annual appropriations and does not align with President Trump's priorities.