Under the #shutdownstories hashtag, government employees are sharing strategies of surviving from paycheck to paycheck, and expressing worries about their mortgages and paying for Christmas gifts. More than 400,000 federal employees deemed “essential” are expected to continue to work through the shutdown, to ensure that critical operations in government proceed. On the National Park Service website, a post in red warns the website will not be updated, adding: “Some parks are closed completely. Contemplated a “#shutdownbeard.”According to a National Treasury Employees Union survey released on Christmas Eve, nearly 80% of federal employees responding said there were very concerned about the furlough. Ryan D Leaf (@RyanDLeaf) You don’t know me, but my grandfather was a game warden in Montana and we spent our vacations going to our 2 national parks.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2018 06:00 UTC