Welcome Back, America: How to Regain Momentum Together After a Shutdown
Shutdowns don’t just pause government, they ripple through communities, businesses and households. When the lights flick back on, we all must readjust.
Shutdowns don’t just pause government, they ripple through communities, businesses and households. When the lights flick back on, we all must readjust.
What do you want to change while you are waiting for the shutdown to end? This could be a good time for self-reflection.
As uncertainty around a federal shutdown mounts, we have compiled helpful resources below. We will continue to add links to this page as the situation develops and more information is made available.
By the count of a recent GovLoop survey, public service has held up pretty well six months later considering the unscripted, tumultuous changes of COVID-19.
Despite last winter’s record 35-day partial shutdown, many of the governmentwide survey’s results improved or remained steady from previous years.
The FEVS results portray the breadth of disruption wrought by a record 35-day budgetary impasse that stranded one-quarter of federal agencies without funding.
Federal agencies have gotten very good at making a broken system work — perhaps too good.
Lawmakers across the aisle in the House and Senate introduced two bills each to address the issue of health coverage during government shutdowns.
Morale, hiring and recruitment all took a hit. Employees are still working to restore a sense of normalcy while wading through a 35-day backlog of work.
Agencies have learned how to ‘do more with less’ — or, in many instances, ‘do too much with nothing,’ all too well. That has demonstrated itself with decades of continuing resolutions… and shutdowns.