Government shutdown costs $400M daily for 750K furloughed workers

The government costs taxpayers 400 million dollars per day to pay federal employees who are not actively working, with a total of $ 1.2 billion from Friday, and CBO budget data published by Senator Johnny Ernst, R-IOWA, office estimates.

“The suspension of Schumer, means that taxpayers will be on a hook for another $ 400 million today to pay 750,000 bureaucrators that are unnecessary for lack of work,” Ernest said in the comment on Fox News Digital on Friday.

She added: “The political democratic trick to fight for health care of taxpayers for illegal immigrants has become officially billion dollars.” “It must be sufficient for the extremist wind. We must reopen the government and return Washington to work to serve the old warriors, families and American diligents.”

The law approved in 2019 requires that employees who have been neglected to pay after reaching a financing agreement and the closure ends. CBO found that the daily cost of employees daily, is about $ 400 million, or a total of $ 1.2 billion as of Friday.

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“The use of information from the emergency plans for agencies and the Office of Personnel Affairs (OPM), the Central Bank of Oman estimates that, with the end of the estimated financing for the fiscal year 2026, about 750,000 employees may have been recovered every day; the total daily cost to compensate them will be approximately 400 million dollars” The data was released after the IOWA CBO republics requested to provide the details of the data cost to close in September with the running The time date.

The data of the Central Bank of Oman was largely based on statistics from a five -week partial closure that lasted from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019, under his first administration, Trump, and the office also indicated in his message to Ernst.

The letter added that the number of federal employees who were subjected, which is currently estimated to sit by about 750,000 employees, may differ every day “because some agencies may prepare more employees whenever the closure continues, and others may remember some of the employees who were at first.”

The government closed early on Wednesday morning after legislators in the Senate failed to reach the budget agreement. The lawmakers approved the short -term extension of the fiscal year 2025 earlier in September, which aims to keep the government funded until November 21.

Since then, the Trump administration and Republicans have blaming the closure of the Democrats, claiming that they have sought for medical advantages funded by taxpayers for illegal immigrants. Democrats have denied that they wanted to finance health care for illegal immigrants, and instead blame the Republicans for the closure.

Fox News Digital has contacted the Shomer office to comment on CBO data and Ernst notes, but it did not receive a response immediately.

White House spokesman Kush Desi criticized the Democrats as “not serious people” when they were asked about CBO data on Friday morning.

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“Democrats burn 400 million dollars per day to pay federal workers to not work because they want to spend $ 200 billion on free health care for illegal foreigners,” Desai told Fox News Digital. “These are not serious people.”

Trump has repeatedly said that he did not want to be closed, but he noticed on Tuesday as the hour has reported that some “good” could come from it.

The administration is expected to prevent federal employees in various agencies amid the closure, as President Donald Trump at the management office and head of the budget Russell, the center, will prevent the departments and programs that target the discounts. (Evan Fuction/Associated Press)

“A lot of good can come down from the closure,” he told reporters. “We can get rid of many things that we did not want, and they will be democratic things. But they want open borders. They want men to play in the sport of women. They want transgendering for everyone. They never stop. They do not learn.

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The administration is expected to place federal employees of various agencies in the midst of closure, with the Trump Meetings Office for Administration and the head of the budget, Russell Russell, on Thursday to plan the departments and programs targeting the cuts.

White House press secretary Caroline Levit speaks to reporters outside the western wing of the White House in Washington, October 2, 2025. (Kevin Lamark/Reuters)

White House press secretary Caroline Levit told reporters on Thursday that “thousands” of employees are likely to be discharged.

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“See, it is likely to be in the thousands,” Levitt said. “It is a very good question. This is something that the management and budget office considers and the entire team in the White House here, again, unfortunately work on it today.”