Overview
- Democrats seek to restore Medicaid cuts and make Affordable Care Act subsidies permanent, while Republicans press a short-term “clean” funding bill through Nov. 21.
- The White House budget office told agencies to prepare reduction-in-force actions if funding lapses, a break from past shutdowns that relied on temporary furloughs.
- Prediction markets put the chance of a shutdown around 70% as the Labor Department said it would withhold Friday’s jobs report if a lapse occurs.
- More than 100,000 federal workers are set to formally resign Tuesday under a deferred-resignation program that unions are challenging in court.
- Mandatory benefits would continue, with the Social Security Administration planning to furlough about 6,100 workers, and economists estimate roughly 900,000 federal employees could be sent home temporarily.