Federal Employees Return to Work as Government Reopens

Friday, November 14th, 2025

Government reopens: With the end of the longest shutdown in U.S. history, federal workers were back in their offices, national parks were fully reopening and the government was returning to normal operations. Some workers were getting $10,000 bonusesfor their work during the shutdown. But the size of the federal bureaucracy meant it would take time to get back up to speed, and some workers were said to be unable to log back into their computer systems. Several states restarted food stamp payments, but millions of Americans were still awaiting the November deposits that the Trump administration resisted paying out in full.