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The government's ruling is day eight and about 800,000 people working for the US government feel the effects.
In many offices, contracts are pending, travel plans have been canceled and pay checks have been halted, with President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats continuing their confrontation over the $ 5 billion proposal. dollars from the border wall of Trump.
This is actually the third government ruling this year. the government closed for three days in January, while Republicans and Democrats were in a standstill on the future of dreamers, undocumented young immigrants brought to the United States while they were children. The government also shut down for nearly nine hours while it was technically short of money in February.
But this is by far the longest closure of 2018. On Monday, December 24, about 420,000 employees went to work without being paid and many of them had to cancel their vacation plans to do so. because of rules that cancel annual holidays for "essential" employees in case of closure. If the closure continues, more than 420,000 people will continue to work without pay on New Year's Eve this Monday.
Overall, nine federal departments and dozens of small agencies were closed. However, a few agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense, will not be affected because they are funded until September 30, 2019. But for many others, the impact is already being felt.
This is how the closure affects federal employees in figures, according to the estimates of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Lara Davis / US Coast Guard, FILE Application of the law
More than 41,000 federal enforcement and correctional officers are affected, including:
– 2,614 officers of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
– 16,742 Correctional Officers of the Bureau of Prisons.
– 13,709 FBI agents.
– 3,600 assistant US marshals.
– 4,399 agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Elaine Thompson / AP Homeland Security
About 88% of employees in the Department of Homeland Security are concerned, including:
– 53,000 employees of TSA.
– 54,000 customs and border protection officers and customs officers.
– 42,000 Coast Guard employees.
– No less than 5,000 American firefighters in the forest service.
– 3,600 forecasters from the National Meteorological Service.
Licensed employees
Some 380,000 employees are on leave, that is, they are unemployed without pay, including:
– 86% of the Department of Commerce, about 41,000 staff.
– 96% of NASA, about 16,700 staff members.
– Over 80% of the National Park Service, approximately 16,000 staff.
– At least 80% of the Forest Service, about 28,800 staff.
– More than 30% of Department of Transport employees, about 18,300 people.
– 95% of the staff of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), about 7,100 staff members.
– About 52,000 IRS staff members.
Win McNamee / Getty Image Museums and the Zoo
– A national zoo (in Washington, DC) will close on January 2nd if there is no resolution before that date. (Do not worry about the animals though, the national zoo said that animal care and feeding would still continue even without funding).
– 19 Smithsonian museums (in Washington, DC, and New York) will close on Jan. 2 if there is no resolution before.
Eriks S Lesser / EPA via Shutterstock ABC News's Bopha Phorn contributed to this story.
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