Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed. Government funding expires at midnight and as of late Friday morning, lawmakers had yet to reach an agreement on that or another stimulus package for the economic recession resulting from the novel coronavirus pandemic. If there is a shutdown, transition funding won’t be impacted because it “was an anomaly line item in the September [continuing resolution],” Matthew Glassman, senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute, told Government Executive.