Here's how the shutdown is playing out across the U.S.
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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Summary
The government shutdown is on. Already, it’s being felt across the country.
National Parks are preparing to scale back or close. Furloughed federal workers are facing tough choices about how to pay the bills when they can’t count on their paychecks. Some people trying to access government services have found locked doors.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are at an impasse after dueling proposals on the senate floor failed Wednesday.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has vowed that his party is in the shutdown fight to win it. He weighs in on Democrats’ strategy and what he’s hearing from his constituents.
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| 0:00.0 | The government shutdown is here, and the impact is already being felt far beyond the nation's capital. |
| 0:06.8 | National parks across the country are preparing to close or to scale back operations. |
| 0:11.7 | Like the 7,000-acre Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in Georgia, where Brittany Jones is the Conservancy Director. |
| 0:19.6 | We're anticipating we're going to have to, unfortunately, disappoint all those kids that |
| 0:23.4 | are excited to come to their National Park right now. |
| 0:25.7 | Nick Daniels is the president of the Air Traffic Controlers Union, and he says |
| 0:29.9 | controllers working through the shutdown without pay may have some hard choices ahead. |
| 0:35.0 | We have people that will have to decide, do I take a second job, do I have to do Uber, |
| 0:39.8 | do I have to find some source of income during this time. |
| 0:43.1 | In Silver Spring, Maryland, |
| 0:44.3 | 75-year-old Carlos Hernandez went to renew his SNAP benefits |
| 0:48.5 | only to find the office closed. |
| 0:50.4 | He says he's confused about why the government shut down and worries what it means for his benefits. |
| 1:00.1 | Consider this. What does the government shutdown mean for people across America and what are lawmakers from either party doing to end it? |
| 1:12.2 | From NPR, I'm Scott Detrow. |
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