Epstein Secrets

d by the chief judge, with the rest furloughed. (The Supreme Court will continue to ope=ate when it opens Oct. 7, as it did in previous shutdowns.) Department of Treasury: 80 percent of the 112,461 employees have been sent home. (Those sending out Social Security checks were asked to stay; IRS employees overseeing aud

ernment is not allowed to make any new spending commitments (save for all the exceptions noted above). By con=rast, if we hit the debt-ceiling then the Treasury Department won't be able to borrow money to pay for spending that Congr=ss has already approved. In that case, either Congress will have to lift th= debt ceili

d=list can be found in the agency contingency plans prepared here. Do "non-ess=ntial employees" who get sent home ever get paid? That's unclear, as Lisa Rein has =eported. On the first day of the shutdown, these employees had to come to their offices to secure their files, set up auto-reply messages, and

slamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for interfering in the 2020 election. The institute, a U.S. official said, was behind the faked emails to voters. The Treasury Department also levied sanctions for election interference on four other entities, including the IRGC." Early-voting counts show a record level of civic part

ng them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political EFTA00162622 appointees who come and go with each administration," Lisa Rein and Eric Yoder report. "Federal scientists, attorneys, regulators, public health experts and many others in senior roles would lose rights to due p

d the family of Fahim Khan, the warlord then serving as the country's first vice president. 'On a scale of one to 10, it was a 20 here,' an unnamed U.S. Treasury Department official posted to Kabul as an Afghan government adviser told interviewers. 'It had elements that you could put into a spy novel, and the connectio

re is a push underway to raise money to help cover the legal bills of the career government witnesses who have gotten caught up in this donnybrook. Lisa Rein reports: "With the House hurtling toward a full chamber vote before Christmas, the diplomatic community is gearing up for Phase Two of potential te