http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/end-us-shutdown-won-t-mean-return-business-usual-research-agencies

Furloughed federal workers who protested the shutdown earlier this month in Washington, D.C., will be going back to work, for at least 3 weeks.

The longest U.S. government shutdown in history may soon be over, at least temporarily. But researchers shouldn’t expect their favorite federal research agency to be back to normal anytime soon.