Sep 25, 2025 PM EDT - Jason

White House Tells Agencies to Ready Mass-Firing Plans if Shutdown Hits—What It Means for Services and Korean Americans

With a partial U.S. government shutdown days away, the White House ordered federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force (RIF) plans that could permanently eliminate positions in programs that would lose funding next week, according to new guidance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The instructions raise the stakes well beyond familiar furloughs and come as negotiations over a stopgap bill remain stalled on Capitol Hill.