Some banks are offering a pause on payments on certain loans, waiving late fees and providing no-interest loans.

As the shutdown drags on, some Congress members are looking at alternatives for securing pay and benefits for federal employees affected by the funding lapse.

Ronneberg, who received a life-saving kidney transplant days before the partial government shutdown, framed that outcome as a life and death matter, saying he will not be able to afford his post-surgery treatment if he loses his job and health care coverage.

The Trump administration’s move to issue paychecks this week to some but not all federal law enforcement employees during the government shutdown is sowing division in the ranks and does little to resolve the harm being done to ongoing investigations,

The offerings come as hundreds of thousands of federal employees face missed paychecks for the foreseeable future.

Partisan messages recently posted to government websites have prompted complaints that several federal officials may have violated the Hatch Act, a law passed in 1939 to restrict certain political activities by federal employees.

Government employees who have been involuntarily furloughed due to the federal shutdown can have evictions paused in Maryland, thanks to a state law passed after the last major funding lapse. The protections apply to both evictions and residential foreclosures.

The federal agency responsible for the nation’s nuclear arsenal has sent approximately 80% of its employees home from work, although it’s unclear exactly how many in New Mexico have been