Executive Order Christmas Eve 2024. The president issued an executive order yesterday closing the federal government on monday, dec.24, giving federal employees christmas eve off. President trump signed an executive order on friday giving federal employees an extra day off on christmas eve.
That decision came after a petition that received about 28,000 signatures on the white. Bush did give workers the day off on christmas eve in 2001 and in 2007 when it landed on a monday.