Central journalistOn October 8, local time, it was learned that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will take more than 34,000 employees on leave due to the government's "shutdown", accounting for about 46% of the department's total employees.
The United States federal government "stop" on the 8th entered the second week, the Republican and Democratic parties separately proposed the provisional allocation bill failed to pass in the Senate on the same day, and efforts to end the government "stop" as soon as possible again failed.
According to the latest emergency plan released by the U.S. National Taxation Service on the same day, more than 34,000 people will be forced to take vacations from the 8th due to the continuous "shutdown". The agency said in a separate letter to employees that most IRS operations have stopped due to disruptions in federal funding.
According to U.S. media reports, by the end of 2024, the total number of employees of the IRS will be about 100,000. Since President Trump took office in January this year, the IRS has become one of the Trump administration’s major cuts in the federal sector, with less than 750,000 employees at the moment.
Trump said on Monday that federal employees who were forced to leave due to a "stop" may not be able to get additional pay after the federal government "reopened" and he has repeatedly threatened to dismiss a large number of federal employees during the government "stop".
Due to the Senate's failure to pass a new interim appropriations bill before federal government funds were exhausted, the U.S. federal government "shut down" again in nearly seven years starting at 0:00 on October 1. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a "government shutdown" will force approximately 750,000 federal employees to take leave. (CCTV reporter Cao Jian)