Most employees unaffected by furloughs work on disaster loans, which, unlike most of the S.B.A.'s other functions, are financed by appropriations not tied to any specific year.
But the message summoning Internal Revenue Service employees from furlough to work said nothing about their missing pay or the inconvenience and the hardships his workers have suffered during the month-long partial government shutdown.
Furloughs might work as a kind of recalibration — a market correction, if you will — of that age-old imbalance.
Nearly 1,000 health care workers at the hospital in Lebanon, N.H., were given a preliminary test and furloughed from work until their results were in; 142 people, including Dr. Herndon, were told they appeared to have the disease; and thousands were given antibiotics and a vaccine for protection.
As I traveled to Washington, D.C., this week for the release of the commission's interim report, the irony was not lost on me that we were focusing on the importance of public service during a government shutdown, with 800,000 federal employees on furlough or working without pay.
Along with some White House staff, cabinet-level departments subject to furlough or working without a paycheck for the shutdown's duration, are Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, State, Transportation and Treasury.
But Trump must weigh pleasing his dues-paying golf club members against the "optics" of a lush fete as federal workers are furloughed or work without pay.
Of the 800,000 federal employees furloughed or working without pay, thousands are researchers.
An estimated 800,000 federal employees had been furloughed or working without pay.
Federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay may be feeling more than a pinch of financial stress.
