YourVoice.Now Summary
Workers & JobsTransparency & AccountabilityFederal cyber defense staff would keep full pay in a shutdown — back to February 14, 2026.
Workers & Jobs
CISA is the agency that guards power grids, water systems, and government networks from hackers. Its staff would get normal pay and benefits in a shutdown. That pay would reach back to February 14, 2026.
Transparency & Accountability
The money stops as soon as Congress passes a spending bill covering CISA. September 30, 2026 is the hard cutoff, so any later shutdown would need a new law.
More about this bill
If you work for the government's cyber defense agency, this bill would keep your paycheck coming during a shutdown. It would pay standard wages and benefits to workers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA. The money would cover the shutdown period starting February 14, 2026. Workers already paid for those weeks from another source could not be paid twice. The funding would not last long. It would end as soon as Congress passes a spending bill for CISA. September 30, 2026 is the outside limit. The cost would later be charged to whatever spending bill Congress does pass. For most people, daily life would not change. CISA staff and their families are the ones who would notice.
Congressional Summary
This bill provides continuing appropriations to provide pay and benefits to Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) employees during the partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown that began on February 14, 2026. (A partial government shutdown is currently in effect for CISA and other DHS agencies because the FY2026 DHS appropriations bill has not been enacted and continuing appropriations for DHS are not in effect.)Specifically, the bill provides FY2026 continuing appropriations to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other payments otherwise payable on a regular basis to CISA employees during the period in which interim or full-year FY2026 appropriations are not in effect.The bill provides the continuing appropriations until the earlier of (1) the enactment into law of the applicable appropriations legislation, or (2) September 30, 2026. The bill must take effect as if it had been enacted on February 13, 2026.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Action Date
- Date Added
- 2026-04-02
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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