Federal Workers Missing Paychecks

17/10/2025 7 min

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Episode Synopsis

Investopedia Editor-in-Chief Caleb Silver talks about how the federal government shutdown will now carry into next week, after the Senate tried and failed, again, to pass a bill to fund the government at current levels. The longest shutdown was 34 days, in 2018-2019, in President Trump's first term. Tens of thousands of federal workers aren't getting paid and the Trump Administration wants to fire upwards of ten thousand of them, but a federal judge has blocked that effort for now.