The Internal Revenue Service said in a Wednesday memo that federal workers are required by law to be paid for the period that they're furloughed during a government shutdown — a day after Axios first reported on a draft White House memo that argued the opposite.

The big picture: That acknowledgement is a likely relief for the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who face being furloughed each day of a government shutdown. • But it seemingly contradicts the analysis from the White House, which offered a different interpretation of the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 that President Trump signed during the last government shutdown, per reporting from Axios' Marc Caputo.

Driving the news: A letter from Acting IRS Human Capital Officer David Traynor to IRS employees sta

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