The IRS implements contingency plans during the government shutdown, suspending taxpayer services while maintaining tax processing and criminal investigations.

The federal government is currently shut down. NPR's network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

But in the reality show that has replaced a properly functioning system of democratic governance, we are fast approaching the moment when a shutdown stops being a subject of political bluster and starts hurting Americans.

On the eighth day of the government shutdown, 1,300 workers at San Francisco International Airport are working without pay.

As members of Congress have failed to reach an agreement to keep the federal government open, several notable D.C. attractions have been shuttered due to funding and staffing issues.

As the government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight. “You have to negotiate,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont, argued late into the evening on the Senate floor. “That’s the way it works.” But no negotiations, at least publicly, are underway.

Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego pressed Johnson on why a Democrat who won a special House election in Arizona had not been sworn in.

As the federal government shutdown drags on into a second week, a critical animal recovery program based in Colorado has ground to a halt, delaying a reintroduction plan that could be crucial to the survival of an endangered species.