As the government shutdown continues, U.S. courts are about to run out of funds and begin furloughs.

According to Jin10 data on October 18, foreign media reported that starting Monday, the U.S. federal court system will begin to cut non-essential functions and place some employees on leave. Previously, the funds that allowed federal courts to operate with paid staff during the U.S. government shutdown were nearly depleted. This means that for the first time in nearly 30 years, the federal judiciary will be forced to send some of its more than 33,000 employees home and require others to work without pay, as Congress has failed to pass legislation to maintain funding for the courts and the rest of the government. Unlike the executive agencies under Trump, the judicial system was able to use funds and other resources that did not rely on new appropriations from Congress to maintain paid operations for several weeks at the beginning of the government shutdown that started on October 1. However, tight budgets in recent years have resulted in available funds being less than during the shutdown in 2019, when the courts maintained paid operations for a full five weeks.