Which governmental activities stop (or continue) during a U.S. Government shutdown?

[Peter Gulia]

Which governmental activities stop (or continue) during a U.S. Government shutdown?

 

Here’s the Labor department’s plan:

 

https://www.dol.gov/dol/Contingency_Plan.pdf

 

And here’s the Internal Revenue Service’s plan:

 

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/266/IRS-Lapse-in-Appropriations-Contingency-Plan_Nonfiling-Season_2018-12-03.pdf

 

Other plans:

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-for-agencies/agency-contingency-plans/

 

[Peter Gulia]

During a “funding lapse”, EBSA staff would not work on discretionary rulemaking projects.

 

For the proposed rule on “Association Retirement Plans and Other Multiple-Employer Plans”, comments are due December 24.

 

During a shutdown, EBSA staff would not work on analyzing the comments and other steps the Administrative Procedure Act and other laws require for adopting such a rule.

 

Different practitioners have different views about whether such a delay would be a good or bad thing.

[Peter Gulia]

It seems I assumed too much; Labor has an appropriation.

Treasury does not.

 

[Peter Gulia]

The New York Times reports that the IRS would furlough about 52,000 workers.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/politics/government-shutdown.html?module=inline