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ICE employee retention during 2025 shutdown

The number of ICE employees retained during the 2025 government shutdown, with about 95-96% of the workforce continuing to work.

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The best publicly available contingency estimates put roughly 19,600 ICE employees — about 95–96% of ICE’s onboard workforce in 2025 — into the “excepted” or retained category that continues working d...