Overview

• Essential operations continue while nonessential functions pause, with many employees furloughed and others working without pay until funding resumes under guaranteed retroactive pay for federal staff.
• Social Security payments and Medicare and Medicaid coverage proceed, and Veterans Affairs medical care and benefits remain available.
• Air traffic control and TSA stay on the job with possible delays, active-duty military and National Guard on orders continue without pay, and ICE and CBP maintain core operations.
• SNAP benefits are expected to continue short term using contingency funds that USDA has not specified, while WIC could run out of money within about a week, with officials warning funds would be exhausted in October.
• Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo will close to visitors with animal care maintained and live cameras turned off, National Park Service plans remain unclear, and OMB now leaves contingency plans to individual agency websites.