How the government shutdown will affect federal workers
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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The slow-moving train wreck we've been watching unfold for a week, has indeed wrecked: the government officially shutdown at midnight. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will be furloughed, and the Trump administration is threatening to fire others. Later in the show, Marketplace's Sabri Ben-Achour sits down with Susan M. Collins, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. They'll discuss tariffs, a cooling labor market and how the central bank is affected by a government shutdown.
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| 1:09.0 | Yep, it happened from Marketplace. I'm Sabri Benhoor in for David Bruncaccio. The slow-moving train wreck we've been watching for a week has indeed wrecked. The government shutdown started at midnight. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will be furloughed. The Trump administration is threatening to fire others. Marketplaces, Nancy Marshall |
| 1:27.8 | Gensar, has more. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that about 750,000 federal employees |
| 1:34.0 | could be furloughed during the shutdown. Some federal workers deemed essential, like air traffic |
| 1:39.0 | controllers and baggage screeners, will work without pay. Federal employees are guaranteed back pay when the government |
| 1:45.3 | reopens. That's not the case for federal contractors. Stephanie Seneca Castro is president of the |
| 1:51.7 | Professional Services Council, a contractor trade group. She says they'll keep working or trying to at least. |
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