US courts set to run out of money, begin furloughs as shutdown lingers

The U.S. federal court system starting on Monday will begin curtailing non-essential functions and furloughing some employees after exhausting what funds the judiciary had left to sustain paid operations during the U.S. government shutdown.
The announcement, detailed in a Thursday internal memo reviewed by Reuters, means the federal judiciary will for the first time in nearly three decades be forced to send some of its over 30,000 employees home and require others to work without a paycheck after Congress failed to pass legislation keeping the
courts and the rest of the government funded.