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• Federal employees crowdsource resources to support each other during shutdown - October 7, 2025

• This article offers helpful information for feds during the government shutdown. We urge you to visit FMA's Government Shutdown Hub for even more resources.

  Sean Michael Newhouse, Government Executive

  A group of former and current civil servants started a petition in September urging Congress to vote against a continuing resolution needed to avoid a government shutdown unless it also included provisions pushing back on the Trump administration’s federal workforce overhauls. While they were spearheading the letter, which has since been signed by more than 2,000 federal employees, the group also was thinking about what to do if a shutdown actually did happen.

  The federal employees came up with a crowdsourced spreadsheet of organizations that are providing assistance to workers who are not getting paid because of the government shutdown, which has been going on since Oct. 1 primarily due to disagreement in Congress over whether to include an extension for expiring Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies in the CR.

  To read the full article, click here.

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