Report: Majority of federal workers exempt from shutdown

Federal Times: WASHINGTON — If Congress doesn't pass a new spending bill in the next week, the federal government will shut down on Oct. 1.

That is, 41 percent of it will.

An estimated 59 percent of non-defense federal employees would be exempt from the shutdown and would go to work as usual, according to an analysis of 119 shutdown contingency plans filed with the Office of Management and Budget.

Read article