What is impacted by a 'partial' government shutdown?
Newsy
If Congress can't reach a funding agreement by Friday, money for several key departments and agencies will run out.
Let's face it — there are a lot of government programs and agencies. But yet again, every federal agency and every federal worker is facing the prospect of a possible partial or full government shutdown in the coming days.
Let's start with how the federal government gets funded. Typically, it's broken up into 12 different parts.
For instance, state and foreign operations is one funding bill, homeland security is another bill, and so on. Funding for the entire government usually expires at the same time. But that's not the case with the current potential shutdown.
On Friday, only these four government sectors are potentially impacted:
- Agriculture, Rural Development, and the Food and Drug Administration
