The White House budget office is urging federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans if the government shuts down next week.

An Office of Management and Budget memo obtained by Punchbowl News on Wednesday detailed the administration’s personnel plans for a shutdown, which go beyond the standard furloughs.

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The memo asks agencies to find programs, projects, and activities, or PPAs, for which discretionary funding will lapse on Oct. 1, no alternative funding source is available, and the cuts

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