Military and Federal Employee Protection Act

The Military and Federal Employee Protection Act would appropriate funds to provide standard employee compensation to federal employees, contractors supporting federal employees, and military personnel who did not receive pay during a lapse in appropriations from October 1, 2025, through the date of the bill’s enactment. It requires agency heads to pay these covered individuals as soon as practicable but no later than seven days after enactment, with funds restricted solely to compensation and not transferable for other uses. The bill applies retroactively as if enacted on September 30, 2025, and charges expenditures to future appropriations when such funding is authorized. It ensures…

AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.