LOADING ERROR LOADINGMore 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 noted that open enrollment has already begun for Medicare and will soon begin for the Affordable Care Act. “CMS will continue to abide by rules governing the Democrat-led government shutdown.”AdvertisementNearly half of the agency’s more than 6,000 workers would have been furloughed, according to its contingency plan. Kogan said Trump has been violating the law by refusing to spend money Congress has appropriated and also by spending money Congress has not authorized it to — for example, by tapping Defense Department research-and-development funds to pay the troops.
