From the Wall Street Journal
The Office of Personnel Management sent an email Sunday clarifying terms of its previous offer for some two million government employees to resign and continue to get a paycheck through September. The email acknowledged that the government hasn’t appropriated the funds for the offer, since the current funding bill for the government expires mid-March.
If Congress doesn’t cobble together a spending bill before the deadline, the government could shut down, freezing payments to federal employees. The memo said any employee who accepts what is called the deferred resignation offer would be entitled to backpay in the event of a shutdown.
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