{"id":2299,"date":"2025-10-13T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:37:50","slug":"irs-furloughs-half-of-its-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/2025\/10\/13\/irs-furloughs-half-of-its-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Furloughs Half of Its Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service announced on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/irs-employee-emergency-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IRS employee emergency news<\/strong><\/a> web page that it started an employee furlough on October 8, 2025. Only \u201calready-identified excepted and exempt employees\u201d remain on duty. Media outlets, such as the Associated Press, have provided specific numbers: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-shutdown-irs-layoffs-federal-workforce-952b84666a5099547546af9ee44d883f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as the government shutdown enters a second week.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the continuing federal government shutdown, the Internal Revenue Service has furloughed employees that are not excepted or exempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/2025-10-IRS-logo-on-laptop-screen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}