White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks about of U.S. President Donald Trump’s budget in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 16, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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UPDATED 9:01AM PT – January 21, 2018
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney sends multiple federal agencies a memo saying to conduct an “orderly shutdown due to an absence in appropriations.”
Mulvaney sent the memo out Saturday from the Office of Management and Budget after urging Congress to pass a resolution to end the government shutdown in a previous memo sent on Friday.
Agencies “should carefully review determinations regarding which employees would be necessary for the agency’s continued performance of those excepted functions, to ensure that these case-by-case determinations are consistent with the applicable legal requirements,” Mulvaney wrote.
The shutdown officially began Saturday morning after senators missed the deadline to to put up funds to keep the government open.
The memo is an almost verbatim copy of the memo sent by his office during the Obama era shutdown in 2013.
He concluded the memo by saying, “Should the shutdown occur and remain in place through January 26, 2018, we will provide further updates on the agency’s operating status.”
