Overview

• The Congressional Budget Office estimates roughly 750,000 federal employees could be furloughed during the closure.
• Active-duty military operations, many border and customs functions, postal services and benefit payments continue, while publication of economic statistics is suspended and nonessential staff are sent home.
• The IRS plans to continue operations for the first five business days of the shutdown, with activity after that period uncertain.
• President Donald Trump said the administration could use the shutdown to implement permanent large-scale staff reductions.
• The White House instructed agencies to execute orderly shutdown plans after the Senate voted down both a House Republican stopgap and a Democratic alternative over disputes about extending insurance subsidies and restoring Medicaid cuts.