Bloomberg reports:

The IRS will furlough just under half of its staff and pause most of the agency’s taxpayer services as gridlock in Congress pushes the government shutdown into its second week.

The plan released Wednesday, which calls for about 34,000 workers to be furloughed, represents a sharp departure from the first week of the shutdown. That outline allowed the agency’s 74,299 employees to continue working with pay by using leftover funding from the Biden administration.

The agency’s original shutdown contingency plan only stretched through Tuesday.

In a letter to staff Wednesday, the agency said furloughed workers would be paid after the shutdown ends, citing a 2019 law requiring back pay. The move contradicts a White House Budget Office draft memo saying that workers aren’t guaranteed pay during a shutdown and public musings from President Donald Trump that not all federal workers would be compensated.