Reductions in force taken from October 1, 2025 have no force or effect
What the document says“Notwithstanding section 106(1), any reduction in force proposed, noticed, initiated, executed, implemented, or otherwise taken by an Executive Agency between October 1, 2025, and the date of enactment, shall have no force or effect.”
Subsection (e) of section 120 of division A voids reductions in force taken during the lapse. Notices are to be rescinded, employees returned to their September 30, 2025 status without interruption and paid what they would otherwise have been paid, and each agency is to notify affected employees and the chairs and ranking members of the Appropriations Committees within five days of enactment.
What the document actually says“Notwithstanding section 106(1), any reduction in force proposed, noticed, initiated, executed, implemented, or otherwise taken by an Executive Agency between October 1, 2025, and the date of enactment, shall have no force or effect.”
Any job cut made between October 1, 2025 and the day this law was signed does not count.
Some agencies moved to cut jobs while the government was shut. This law undoes those cuts. Workers go back as if the notice never came.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.