U.S. White House economical advisor Kevin Hassett speaks successful beforehand of a TV camera astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., November 13, 2025.
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Back pay owed to national workers for the clip they were furloughed during the government shutdown is expected to onshore successful their slope accounts aboriginal adjacent week, White House economical advisor Kevin Hassett said Thursday.
"There truly has been an assertive effort to get radical to get their checks arsenic soon arsenic possible," Hassett told reporters, a time aft President Donald Trump signed a short-term backing bill that allowed the authorities to reopen aft 43 days.
"I deliberation that the payments volition come, astir apt aboriginal adjacent week," Hassett said, arsenic hundreds of thousands of national workers returned to their offices.
The timing of the payments mightiness beryllium affected depending connected the agencies wherever employees work.
Under national law, authorities employees who are furloughed during a shutdown indispensable beryllium paid for the clip they were retired of enactment astatine their modular complaint of wage "at the earliest day possible, careless of scheduled wage dates."
NBC News, citing a elder medication official, reported that the White House has "urged" authorities agencies to get workers their backmost wage expeditiously and accurately."
"Superchecks" for wage spanning Oct. 1 done Nov. 1 are expected to beryllium sent retired opening Saturday for employees of the General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management, the authoritative said, according to NBC.
Superchecks are projected to onshore connected Sunday successful slope accounts for workers of the departments of Energy, Health and Human Services, Defense and Veterans Affairs, the authoritative said.
On Monday, employees of the departments of Education, Interior, Transportation, arsenic good arsenic the Environmental Protection Agency, NSA. and the Social Security Administration, and respective different agencies are expected to get superchecks.
Workers astatine the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Justice, Labor, and the Treasury, arsenic good arsenic the Small Business Administration, are expected to person superchecks.
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Senate unit employees volition get the archetypal paycheck that they missed during the shutdown connected Friday, and the 2nd missed paycheck connected Monday, a idiosyncratic acquainted with the concern told CNBC.
House staffers received a announcement that they should person their backmost wage connected Tuesday, or, if their accounts are astatine smaller banks, connected Wednesday.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy earlier this week said that aerial postulation controllers should get 70% of their backmost wage this week, with the remaining information being paid adjacent week.
Hassett said Thursday, "I was truly pleased to spot immoderate of my furloughed employees amusement up contiguous and there's a batch of hugging and smiling."
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