The messages acknowledged the growing risk that millions of employees and military service members may stop receiving pay in just three days, unless lawmakers in Congress can clinch a last-minute deal that would extend government funding beyond Saturday.
Members of the military are expected to helm their posts even without pay, as are a select group of civilian employees — such as bag-inspection agents at airports and federal law enforcement officials — whose jobs are considered essential to public safety or national security.
Michael Linden, a former top official at the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the early notices reflected a political reality: Unlike past spending battles that yielded an eleventh-hour deal, “the chances of a shutdown are much higher.”
In the Senate, Democrats and Republicans inched closer to finalizing a bipartisan agreement that would fund federal agencies into November, but it remained unclear if they could pass it in time — or if the GOP-controlled House would even bother to consider it.
The official blueprints suggest that congressional inaction could force the government to halt some food and water inspections; slash nutrition aid to millions of poor families; and imperil the provision of money to Florida, Puerto Rico and other communities still reeling from major natural disasters.
Federal workers who go weeks without pay might cease showing up, potentially snarling air travel, while a series of programs that subsidize child care, college financial aid and public housing would start to exhaust their cash reserves, leaving lower-income Americans in a bind.
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The messages acknowledged the growing risk that millions of employees and military service members may stop receiving pay in just three days, unless lawmakers in Congress can clinch a last-minute deal that would extend government funding beyond Saturday.
Members of the military are expected to helm their posts even without pay, as are a select group of civilian employees — such as bag-inspection agents at airports and federal law enforcement officials — whose jobs are considered essential to public safety or national security.
Michael Linden, a former top official at the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the early notices reflected a political reality: Unlike past spending battles that yielded an eleventh-hour deal, “the chances of a shutdown are much higher.”
In the Senate, Democrats and Republicans inched closer to finalizing a bipartisan agreement that would fund federal agencies into November, but it remained unclear if they could pass it in time — or if the GOP-controlled House would even bother to consider it.
The official blueprints suggest that congressional inaction could force the government to halt some food and water inspections; slash nutrition aid to millions of poor families; and imperil the provision of money to Florida, Puerto Rico and other communities still reeling from major natural disasters.
Federal workers who go weeks without pay might cease showing up, potentially snarling air travel, while a series of programs that subsidize child care, college financial aid and public housing would start to exhaust their cash reserves, leaving lower-income Americans in a bind.
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