US federal workers miss their first paycheques since shutdown

美国联邦雇员错过了自政府关门以来的首次工资支付。

World Business Report

2025-10-25

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Hundreds of thousands of federal employees have missed their full paycheques for the first time since the beginning of the government shutdown three weeks ago, with Democrats and Republicans still blaming each other for the lapse in federal funding. We hear from a US federal employee at the Department of Defence on the East Coast. And this week the fight moved to the courts over another politically contentious area – the massive charges the Trump administration wishes to impose on H1B visas – the work visas issued to up to 65,000 foreign workers each year, looking for jobs that US employers say they are unable to fill otherwise. Also, Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, says he's ready to resume trade negotiations with the United States when Washington is ready. This comes after President Trump announced he was abruptly ending talks because of an anti-tariff advertising campaign by the province of Ontario. (Picture: A sign outside the National Gallery of Art alerts visitors the museum is closed in Washington and remains closed due to the government shutdown on 23 October 2025. Credit: photo by JIM LO SCALZO/EPA/Shutterstock).
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  • The politicians, in my opinion, are forgetting the fact that one, we do very important work,

  • and two, we are real people with real families, with real issues and real needs.

  • Well, they're right.

  • I just got to Congress about 40 weeks ago, and I can tell you every indication is that it's broken.

  • We're looking at shutdown on World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • Yes,

  • I'm Ed Butler and today we are hearing from a shut down federal worker who's wondering where their Thanksgiving turkey is coming from.

  • We're also hearing how Canadians are coping with the abandonment of US trade talks and why a former Russian Prime Minister thinks the tide is turning against President Putin's wartime economy.

  • Today, hundreds of thousands of federal workers have missed their full paychecks for the first time.

  • Around 1.4 million of them are un…

  • on unpaid leave or are working without pay as a result of the so-called shutdown.

  • We're three and a half weeks into it.

  • Democrats and Republicans in Congress can't agree on how to pass a new federal budget.

  • I've been hearing today from one federal worker.

  • We're calling him Chris, not his real name.

  • He wanted to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal from his employer.

  • Chris works in finance, ironically, within the Department of Defense,

  • but there's no finance for him.

  • He told me what it was like opening his paycheck on Friday morning.

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