SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- With the government shutdown entering its first day since members of Congress could not reach a spending budget, San Diego military employees are working without pay.
Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps’ largest west coast expeditionary training facility, is home to 38,000 military family members. On Wednesday, the station confirmed that since the shutdown, military will work without pay and civilian workers who are not in “excepted work” will not be working.
“The most recent appropriations for the Department of War expired at 11:59 p.m. EST on September 30, 2025,” Camp Pendleton officials said in a social media post. “Military personnel will continue in a normal duty status without pay until such time as a continuing resolution or appropriations are passed by Cong