financial security to the safety of hazardous waste facilities, will cease. The EPA halted non-essential inspections of chemical facilities and drinking water systems.
Permits and reviews for planned energy and transportations projects stopped, preventing companies from working on these projects.
Loans to rural communities were halted.
Hundreds of thousands of Federal employees including many charged with protecting the country from terrorist threats, defending our borders, inspecting our food, and keeping our skies safe will work without pay until the shutdown ends.
Hundreds of thousands of additional Federal workers will be immediately and indefinitely be furloughed without pay.
The following services that will continue during the government shut down:
Social security beneficiaries will continue receiving checks.
Active military will continue serving.
Air traffic controllers, prison guards and border patrol agents will remain on the job.
NASA Mission Control will continue supporting astronauts serving on the Space Station.
There were garbage piled up at the National Parks and federal workers furloughed, the government shutdown is also slowing down businesses that rely on federal workers during the day, like the restaurants and cafes where they eat lunch.
Calls to many of those federal offices, such as the Bureau of Land Management, result in outgoing voicemail messages that explain the office is closed because of “the lapse in appropriations.”
Colorado has more than 50,000 federal employees, many of whom are still on the job. But the state also has large numbers of federal departments affected by the partial shutdown, including about 6,500 workers with the Interior Department, 3,700 employees with the Agriculture Department, and 1,400 workers with the Department of Transportation. Fewer people in office parks mean fewer people going out to lunch.
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