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Lapse in Appropriations: The most recent appropriations for the Department of War expired at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sept. 30, 2025.
Military personnel will continue in normal duty status, without pay, until such time as a continuing resolution or appropriations are passed by Congress and signed into law. Civilian personnel not engaged in excepted will be placed in a non-work, non-pay status.
For more information please refer to the following link:

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4319360/fy26-lapse-of-appropriations-department-of-the-navy-resources-for-sailors-marin/
 

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200617-N-ZW825-0220 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (June 17, 2020) Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper asks students assigned to Training Support Center on Naval Station Great Lakes a question as part of his visit, June 17, 2020. Esper toured tenant commands on Naval Station Great Lakes as well as Recruit Training Command to observe the Navy’s implementation of Department of Defense COVID-19 mitigation measures which permit training and accession missions to safely continue during the global pandemic. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Byron C. Linder/Released)

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Photo by: Chief Petty Officer Byron Linder

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Resolution: 2250x1500
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Location: Great Lakes, Illinois
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