{"id":806,"date":"2025-10-07T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/?p=806"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:35:48","slug":"call-to-prevent-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/2025\/10\/07\/call-to-prevent-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Call to Prevent Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"215\"><strong data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"215\">Urgent Call to Prevent Government Shutdown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"683\">NARFE is actively urging members to contact their lawmakers to avert a government shutdown and protect federal employees. The <strong>Office of Management and Budget (OMB)<\/strong> has directed agencies to consider initiating Reduction-in-Force (RIF) actions for federal employees in programs impacted by a lapse in funding. NARFE has denounced this directive as a \u201cscare tactic\u201d and continues to advocate for good-faith, bipartisan negotiations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"683\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Your voice matters!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> Take a few minutes to let your federal representatives know why protecting federal benefits is vital to you.\u00a0 Know your <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/about-us\/program-chairs\/national-legislation\/\">Legislative Representative<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Advocacy Updates &#8211; &#8220;Urgent Call to Prevent Government Shutdown&#8221;!   What can you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2025\/10\/Gov-Shutdown-767x575-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}