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Russell Vought said federal employees should still report to work so they can “undertake orderly shutdown activities.”
MICHAEL STRATFORD
09/30/2025, 8:23PM ET
White House budget director Russell Vought on Tuesday evening directed federal agencies to begin implementing their shutdown plans after Senate Democrats blocked a Republican plan to keep the government open beyond midnight.
The leaders of executive branch departments and agencies “should now execute their plans for an orderly shutdown,” Vought wrote in a memo, formally initiating the first closure of the federal government since President Donald Trump’s first term.



