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- Federal employees received an email on Tuesday ahead of a potential government shutdown.The email blames Democrats for blocking a funding bill.Multiple agencies are set to furlough workers if the budget isn't passed by the deadline.
Federal employees' inboxes are dinging — it's yet another email about their jobs.
Employees of multiple departments received an email on Tuesday warning of a government shutdown and potential furloughs at midnight tonight.
Agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Social Security Administration, Department of the Interior, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Office of Personnel Management, received the email from their leadership. It outlines what is expected to happen if Democrats and Republicans fail to pass a funding bill by midnight and the federal government shuts down.
If the government shuts down at 12:01 am on Wednesday, federal employees might have to work without pay or get fired, if President Donald Trump's Office of Management and Budget goes through with potential plans outlined in a recent memo. Several agencies' contingency plans indicate that thousands of workers could be furloughed if the budget isn't passed. Tuesday's email does not mention firings.
Read the email that some federal employees received on Tuesday afternoon:
President Trump opposes a government shutdown, and strongly supports the enactment of H.R. 5371, which is a clean Continuing Resolution to fund the government through November 21, and already passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate due to unrelated policy demands. If Congressional Democrats maintain their current posture and refuse to pass a clean Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded before midnight on September 30, 2025, federal appropriated funding will lapse.
A funding lapse will result in certain government activities ceasing due to a lack of appropriated funding. In addition, designated pre-notified employees of this agency would be temporarily furloughed. P.L. 116-1 would apply.
The agency has contingency plans in place for executing an orderly shutdown of activities that would be affected by any lapse in appropriations forced by Congressional Democrats. Further information about those plans will be distributed should a lapse occur.
On Tuesday, The Department of Housing and Urban Development website also posted a red banner that reads, "The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people."
A representative for Senate Majority Leader John Thune referred Business Insider to remarks he made on Tuesday afternoon, saying that "if the government shuts down, it is on the Senate Democrats." Representatives for the White House, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and House Speaker Mike Johnson did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
