Government Furlough 2025. According to agency plans from last year, the government is set to furlough about 737,000 employees, or 34%, of the federal workforce. House appropriators passed the financial services and general government 2025 spending bill yesterday and it is 20% below the administration's request and 10% below this.

Here to talk more on the federal drive with tom temin about what happened and what is next for fiscal 2025. What’s a furlough and who is affected by a government shutdown?