President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that some federal workers who have been furloughed during the government shutdown will not receive back pay after they return to work.

The remark came hours after the circulation of a draft White House memo arguing that federal employees placed on unpaid leave are not guaranteed back pay.

The memo, first reported by Axios and confirmed to NBC News by the White House, appears to clash with the Trump administration's own recent guidance. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management, in a shutdown guidance sheet issued last month, stated definitively that furloughed workers would be paid retroactively once the funding lapse ends.

A federal law , which Trump signed after the last government shutdown in 2019, additionally says that furlough

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