{"id":13054,"date":"2025-12-20T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=13054"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:41:54","slug":"trump-grants-federal-workers-two-additional-christmas-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=13054","title":{"rendered":"Trump Grants Federal Workers Two Additional Christmas Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Just two weeks after he\u00a0declared\u00a0Americans are saying \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d again, President Donald Trump rang in the holidays with two new federal days off this year: Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The early Christmas gift for federal employees comes by way of\u00a0executive order\u00a0and follows the longest shutdown in the history of the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is fairly unusual for a president to give government workers both the 24th and 26th off, though some of Trump\u2019s predecessors have occasionally given employees Christmas Eve off. For example, last year, then-President Joe Biden declared the day before Christmas a federal holiday, but he did not do the same in 2023. In both 2019 and 2020, Trump, who was commander-in-chief at the time, declared Christmas Eve a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this season, former President Barack Obama was the last commander-in-chief to give federal staffers a holiday the day after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting Trump\u2019s executive order allows agency executives to determine which offices of their organizations need to remain open on Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas for \u201creasons of national security, defense, and other public need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The executive order applies only to 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong>Please sign up for\u00a0Faithwire\u2019s daily newsletter\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app\u00a0to stay up-to-date with the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two weeks after he\u00a0declared\u00a0Americans are saying \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d again, President Donald Trump rang in the holidays with two new federal days off this year: Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas. The early Christmas gift for federal employees comes by way of\u00a0executive order\u00a0and follows the longest shutdown in the history of the U.S. government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3697,813,2330,3695,719,174,3696],"class_list":["post-13054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-additional","tag-christmas","tag-federal","tag-grants","tag-holidays","tag-trump","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}