I was biking past the Washington Monument yesterday and noticed that the trash cans

all around it were overflowing. There was trash blowing all over the national mall.

And it was just a subtle little reminder that it's a whole new year, but the government is still stuck in late 2018.

Lee Zoh has been covering the shutdown for Vox.

It's day 12 of the shutdown today and about 25% of the government has currently been affected by it

because the other 75% was funded earlier last year.

And that means that departments including Homeland Security, Treasury, State,

Interior have yet to be funded. And one of the biggest impacts of this is that about 800,000

federal employees are currently affected in working without pay or are furloughed.

So about 380,000 are furloughed, which means they've been told to just stay home, not come to work.

And then the other 420,000 are working, but they're not getting immediate pay.

And so which agencies are the most affected by that?

I think some of the most visible ones that people might observe are places like the National Parks,

where they've stayed open over the holidays, but they've had limited staffing, limited access to services.

And so there's trash piling up at different parks. Conservationists are worried that natural resources

are getting hurt by kind of the lack of park rangers around to make sure things are going smoothly.

Another place people might see it is the IRS, which I think most directly affects people's

taxes and filing season is about to start. And it's the first filing season where they're going to

be implementing the new Republican tax plan. So they were already worried about delays. And I think

now because so many people at that agency are furloughed, you could see that delayed even further.

But other places including like FDA, EPA, the Judiciary, all expected to see some sort of impact

due to limited staffing. And this whole thing of course is happening because of

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