Four over one months and Thirteen days of the US Federal Shutdown, things are slowly returning to Normalcy.
This according to experts was the longest federal government shutdown in history and which has never been seen before.
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump worked in odd hours and signed the funding bill passed in both chambers of Congress to.
This means that Federal government activities must immediately return to normal;
” Some benefits, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, will take a little time to be doled out. But things must come back to normalcy,” said a Republican.
The spending bill reopens and funds the federal government until Jan. 30, 2026, with some agencies like the Department of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs funded through the end of the fiscal year.
According to experts, furloughed employees are expected to return to work immediately and there is some indication that those orders have gone out to specific agencies as the US government try to fix the mess that resulted from the Shutdown.
According to an insider, furloughed employees at Health and Human Services were told to “report for duty” on Thursday, according to a memo obtained by ABC News.
It added, “If HHS employees do not have previously approved leave scheduled, or do not get leave approved, then they will be “considered absent without leave (AWOL),” the memo reads In parts.
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