A US government shutdown affects about 800,000 federal employees out of 1.8 million full-time civil servants. About 380,000 are furloughed, meaning they cannot work or get paid. The rest are working without pay. A government shutdown can cause financial hardship for many federal employees, who may have to use their savings to survive while furloughed.
Nearly 85% of US cybersecurity agency CISA staff may be sent home at the end of the week as a government shutdown looms. The US government wil
