The U.S. Department of Justice will not need to furlough employees this fiscal year after all, thanks to some moves from Congress and cost-cutting measures, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced to the agency late April 24.

The budget actions the DOJ took mean that thousands of federal law-enforcement agents, prosecutors and other agency employees will remain on the job despite a $1.6 billion budget cut from Congress called sequestration, Holder said in a letter to employees.