True Shutdown Fairness Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 31
- Latest action
- Oct 23, 2025
What it does
The True Shutdown Fairness Act would appropriate funds to ensure federal employees, contractors, active-duty military, and reserve component members receive standard pay and benefits during a lapse in appropriations beginning October 1, 2025, regardless of their excepted or furloughed status. It prohibits agencies from using any funds to implement reductions in force or place employees on administrative leave for more than 10 work days per year during such lapses. The appropriations would remain available until new funding is enacted and would be charged to future appropriations once passed, with the pay provisions retroactively effective as of September 30, 2025.
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Where it stands
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What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Chris Van Hollen
- Adam Schiff
- Alejandro Padilla
- Amy Klobuchar
- Andy Kim
- Angela Alsobrooks
- Ben Luján
- Bernard Sanders
- Brian Schatz
- Christopher Coons
- Cory Booker
- Edward Markey
- Elizabeth Warren
- Gary Peters
- Jeff Merkley
- Lisa Blunt Rochester
- Mark Kelly
- Mark Warner
- Martin Heinrich
- Mazie Hirono
- Patty Murray
- Peter Welch
- Raphael Warnock
- Richard Blumenthal
- Richard Durbin
- Ron Wyden
- Ruben Gallego
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Tammy Duckworth
- Timothy Kaine
- Tina Smith
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.