Is ICE still being paid during the shutdown?

[PittBlue]

I bet they are.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Probably double time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Duplicate of your earlier post. Best to self-delete one or the other. . . . nt

[Jack Valentino]

3. According to this, only Congress and US Mail workers still get paid--

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5534068-congress-pay-during-shutdown/

[haele]

4. Some, maybe...

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But Noem has already run the FY25 appropriated budget into the ground, and the only people who are able to be paid are people who still have appropriated "ceiling" from previous years still available, even if the task expired.
The day to day, direct hires, or mission funded people are screwed. They aren't getting paid, essential or not.
That includes all the senior people and Directors.

The project funded people (typically support or embedded people) might have some money, but those tend to be unique - engineers, technicians, scientists, doctors or PAs...and of course, contractors that get paid on 3 to 5 year support vehicles will be able to work on the money they already have obligated.

Since the Coast Guard people I've seen around today that still have to come in aren't "seeing in the New Year", I doubt ICE agents are being paid as of today.
On edit- if DHS manages to continue to pay their pet merc stormtroopers on OMN money, and other departments like the DoJ, DoD/Whatever, or even within the DHS (like TSA or CBP) can't, there's got to be a lot of lawsuits after the fact.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. ICE, Border Patrol Continue Work Under Shutdown

This is surprising to me.

ICE, Border Patrol Continue Work Under Shutdown
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-border...

— Aleianjack (@aleianjack.bsky.social) 2025-10-02T02:47:13.110Z

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-border-patrol-continue-work-under

The federal “shutdown,” instituted at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday morning has left the national security state largely immune from furloughs and work stoppages.

Though many government websites and social media feeds have gone dark — some even blaring that the Democrats are to blame — in the dark world of rounding up immigrants, terrorizing cities, and building up a new surveillance and arrest system to pursue “domestic terrorists,” little is changing.

“It doesn’t really affect us very much,” one senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told me this morning.

In fact, the authoritative 77-page DHS document detailing procedures for a government shutdown shows that out of 271, 927 civil service employees onboard within the department, 259,482 (or 91 percent) are “exempt” or “excepted.”

For ICE, 63,243 of its 67,762 employees are completely exempt. For Customs and Border Protection, 63,243 of its 67,729 employees will continue to work. And for TSA, 61,197 of its 64,130 continue their annoyances unaffected......

The Pentagon and the intelligence agencies have similar exemptions and will continue their work, furloughing mostly low-level civilian employees, according to the (very) limited information they have released. For other federal entities that deal with feeding, housing, and caring for the public, the shutdown could be devastating if it goes on. It already is.

In contrast, and as always, the national security state gets what it wants.

I will keep my eye for verification of this material