{"id":270185,"date":"2025-10-01T21:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270185\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:34:17","slug":"government-shutdown-live-updates-as-white-house-moves-to-cut-billions-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270185\/","title":{"rendered":"Government shutdown live updates as White House moves to cut billions in funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Park Service, which is part of the Interior Department, released its plans for the shutdown late Tuesday evening. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025-09\/doi-nps-lapse-plan2025930508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The document<\/a> says 9,296 of the service&#8217;s 14,500 employees will be furloughed, but many areas will remain open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Park roads, lookouts, trails, and open-air memorials will generally remain accessible to visitors,&#8221; the plan says.<\/p>\n<p>The NPS&#8217; plan for the parks themselves makes a distinction between those with accessible areas that collect fees under a law known as the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act and those that don&#8217;t. The agency has a list of parks that do and don&#8217;t charge fees on its website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/aboutus\/entrance-fee-prices.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 100 of the 400 parks in the National Parks system collect fees. Those parks that have accessible areas will use available fees to provide &#8220;basic visitor services&#8221; to maintain &#8220;restrooms and sanitation, trash collection, road maintenance, campground operations, law enforcement and emergency operations, and staffing entrance gates as necessary to provide critical safety information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parks with accessible areas that don&#8217;t collect fees may be able to use &#8220;regional or national&#8221; fees with the approval of the service&#8217;s director.<\/p>\n<p>Parks without accessible areas will not operate during the shutdown, the NPS plan says. Staffing will be at a minimum and &#8220;[n]o visitor services will be provided.&#8221; The service &#8220;will not issue permits, conduct interpretive or educational programs, collect trash, operate or provide restrooms, maintain roads and walkways (including plowing and ice melting) or provide visitor information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a general rule, if a facility or area is locked or secured during non-business hours (buildings, gated parking lots, etc.) it should be locked or secured for the duration of the shutdown,&#8221; the plan says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The service says parks can enter into agreements with state and local governments and third parties &#8220;for donations to fund the full operation of an individual park unit or for specified services.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Park Service, which is part of the Interior Department, released its plans for the shutdown late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":270186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-270185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115301060920249790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}