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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration is giving certain Transportation Security Agency workers a $10,000 bonus.
The White House is ordering federal employees back to work Thursday, as the government reopens following a historic shutdown that furloughed about 600,000 federal employees, shuttered offices and froze billions in salaries and payments.
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With shutdown over, furloughed workers return to Beaufort Marine bases. Will they get paid?
Hundreds of civilian employees were furloughed Oct. 1 as a result of the shutdown, which also fell during the Marine Corps 250th anniversary.
Most federal workers were not paid for October and the first part of November. Some were furloughed, while others had to work without pay.
On Friday, P.C. Zai, who was furloughed from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, was at the Fibre Space yarn shop in Alexandria, Va., working on what would be a teal-colored raglan sweater. Her dog, Mazie, was at her feet.