Trump Calls Back Furloughed Medicare, Medicaid Workers During Shutdown
Source: Huff Post
Oct 23, 2025, 01:23 PM EDT | Updated 4 hours ago
More than three weeks into the government shutdown, the Trump administration is calling back furloughed workers at the federal agency that administers health care for millions of Americans.
Thousands of employees at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are being instructed to return to work on Monday. They have been off the job since Oct. 1 after Congress failed to reach a deal to fund the government.
The callbacks at CMS demonstrate the lengths to which President Donald Trump’s administration is going to protect certain politically popular services as the shutdown drags on, often employing creative or questionable accounting maneuvers to fund specific work.
A spokesperson said the agency would be tapping fees it collects from users who pay for CMS research data to pay the recalled workers. They noted that open enrollment has already begun for Medicare and will soon begin for the Affordable Care Act. “In order to best serve the American people … CMS is temporarily calling back all furloughed employees on Monday, October 27,” the spokesperson said in an email. “CMS will continue to abide by rules governing the Democrat-led government shutdown.”
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