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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is telling federal agencies to draw up reduction-in-force (RIF) plans ahead of a possible government shutdown on Oct. 1, according to an internal memo obtained by Fox News.

The guidance says agencies must consider issuing RIF notices to employees working on programs that are not legally required to continue if funding lapses.

"With respect to those Federal programs whose funding would lapse and which are otherwise unfunded, such programs are no longer statutorily required to be carried out," the memo states.

Under the guidance, RIF notices would be issued on top of furlough notices and should go to all employees tied to the affected programs.

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