Government Shutdown: Who’s Closed and What Happens?

For the first time in two decades, the United States government has shutdown over a stalemate on the Affordable Healthcare Act (aka. Obamacare).  The last time the government shutdown was for 21 days during 1995 and 1996.

How does the shutdown effect you?  Who’s open and closed?

Below is a list of every government agency effected by the shutdown, how many people are effected, and what services, if any, continue to operate.

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 39
• Expected to Work: 5
• Furloughed: 34

Note: Within one hour of learning about a shutdown, the director of the Office of Administration will send an e-mail advisory to all the staff. Source

Consumer Product Safety Commission – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 540
• Expected to Work: 22
• Furloughed: 518

Note: With 22 workers left, analysis of defective products will continue; recalls still coordinated; imports still monitored.

National Transportation Safety Board – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expected to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Will still investigate major accidents and continue ongoing investigations.

U.S. Office of Special Council – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 110
• Expected to Work: 14
• Furloughed: 96

Note: Whistleblower disclosures involving a substantial and serious risk to public health or safety or those requiring emergency action to protect property will continue to be processed. Source

USDA – Office of Ethics – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expected to Work: 0
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Unless specifically requested by the Office of the Secretary or the General Counsel, and only for those times requested, the OE Director will be in a furlough status along with the rest of the OE staff.

USDA – Office of Communications – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 78
• Expected to Work: 2
• Furloughed: 76

Note: Unless otherwise directed by OMB, the USDA.gov web site will go dark and be linked to a splash page; Press releases will not be generated nor will there be USDA contact with the media.

United States Interagency Council on Homelessness – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 21
• Expected to Work: 0
• Furloughed: 21

Note: USICH does not conduct exempted activities.

Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 58
• Expected to Work: 2
• Furloughed: 56

Note: Totally closed. IT and Administrative Assistant are the only employees retained.

USDA – Rural Development – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 4,730
• Expected to Work: 53
• Furloughed: 4,677

Note: This offshoot of the Agriculture department has no program activities that would continue in the absence of an appropriation. However, there are certain limited activities that are viewed as expected for the purpose of preserving the Government”s property. This property includes RD loans portfolio, which exceeds $190 billion and serves as collateral for loans, and borrowers funds paid to RD in escrow for real estate taxes and property insurance.

FDIC Office of Inspector General – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 121
• Expected to Work: 8
• Furloughed: 113

Note: This is an independent unit that conducts audits, investigations and other reviews of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s programs and operations.

USDA – Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 154
• Expected to Work: 0
• Furloughed: 154

Note: There are no employees necessary to lead and direct the continuation of activities.

Armed Forces Retirement Home – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: 285
• Expected to Work: 249
• Furloughed: 36

Note: The two retirement homes are in Gulfport, Mississippi, and Washington. During a funding hiatus, the AFRH will remain open to ensure the health and safety of residents, protect property or to provide other emergency services.

USDA – Office of the General Counsel – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expected to Work: 1
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: The top lawyer for the US Department of Agriculture and his staff would not be furloughed.

Treasury – Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: 193
• Expected to Work: 193
• Furloughed: 0

Note: The office is financed by multi-year appropriations and so essentially excepted from shutdown. It provides oversight for the 2008 Wall Street Bailout.

Office of Personnel Management – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expected to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: The majority of OPM’s functions are funded by sources other than annual appropriations, and thus would continue during a government shutdown caused by a lapse in appropriations.

Ability One – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 30
• Expect to Work: 0
• Furloughed: 30

Note: The independent agency’s 30 employees, who work on behalf of the blind, would be prohibited from working during a shutdown. Source

Department of Homeland Security – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 231,117
• Expect to Work: 199,822
• Furloughed: 31,295

Note: The following will be affected: All non-disaster grants programs administered by FEMA and other DHS components; citizens and U.S. businesses will not be able to access E-Verify; FEMA will cease providing high-quality data that is used for public planning. which ultimately is used to make insurance determinations for homeowners; the issuance or renewals of seaman documentation and licensing; fisheries enforcement patrols and routine maintenance to aids to navigation will be limited or curtailed.

National Capital Planning Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 35
• Expect to Work: 5
• Furloughed:30

Note: The commission provides long-range planning guidance for Washington and nearby area. Unless notified otherwise, only excepted employees should report to work on the first day of a temporary lapse. Source

Bureau of Public Debt – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: 771
• Expect to Work: 771
• Furloughed: 0

Note: The bureau is small agency within the Department of the Treasury. During a lapse in appropriation, it will continue to provide resources necessary to support disbursements to Social Security recipients, maintain government-wide accounting activities as well as activities related to federal government borrowing and tax collection. Source

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: 111
• Expect to Work: 111
• Furloughed: 0

Note: The board identifies the nature and consequences of potential threats to public health and safety at the Department of Energy’s defense nuclear facilities. Initially, the board will continue full operations, but 100 people would be furloughed in an extended shutdown.

U.S. Trade and Development Agency – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 48
• Expect to Work: 4
• Furloughed:44

Note: The agency promotes U.S. economic interest in foreign counties. Source

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – Open/For a few weeks

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: The USPTO could operate for “a few weeks” with available funds.

U.S. courts – Open/For 10 days

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: The U.S. court system could operate for 10 days on available funds.

USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: 148
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service, according to its website, “administers programs that facilitate the efficient, fair marketing of U.S. agricultural products, including food, fiber, and specialty crops.”

Treasury – Departmental Offices – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 1,976
• Expect to Work: 979
• Furloughed: 997

Note: The Treasury department is broken up into a number of bureaus elsewhere on this list that perform specific functions. These 1,976 people are detailed to the headquarters in Washington, D.C. Those expected to work include the Secretary of the Treasury and his staff.

Treasury – Inspector General for Tax Administration – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 766
• Expect to Work: 297
• Furloughed: 469

Note: The Treasury Department’s independent overseer of the IRS would halt most new investigations and there would be a slow-down to others.

Office of Government Ethics – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 63
• Expect to Work: 1
• Furloughed: 62

Note: The OGE provides oversight and accountability of executive branch policies designed to prevent and resolve conflicts of interest.

National Science Foundation – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 2,000
• Expect to Work: 300
• Furloughed: 1,700

Note: The NSF was created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense.”

Millennium Challenge Corporation – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 283
• Expect to Work: 6
• Furloughed: 277

Note: The MCC is an independent U.S. foreign aid agency that is helping lead the fight against global poverty. Source

Institute of Museum and Library Services – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 69
• Expect to Work: 4
• Furloughed: 65

Note: The IMLS website, www.imls.gov, will continue to function. Source

Inter-American Foundation – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: 4
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: The IAF assists with development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The only activities authorized for IAF employees are those that contribute to an orderly suspension of foundation activities. Source

Delta Regional Authority 6 – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: The Delta Regional Authority works to improve life for the residents of 252 counties and parishes across eight states that border the Mississippi River. It will remain mostly open using unobligated, prior-year funds.

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 75
• Expect to Work: 8
• Furloughed: 67

Note: The Commission will continue to adjudicate those Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 disputes that arise from a mine emergency and are necessary to ensure continued public health and safety. The Commission will continue to review incoming filings for emergency and time sensitive items. The Commission will continue to decide whether to grant or deny Petitions for Discretionary Review.

US Agency for International Development – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: The Agency will continue operating using residual balances in multi-year and no-year accounts until these funds are insufficient to continue. During this time, operations will be restricted.

Appalachian Regional Commission – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: The ARC works to further economic development in Appalachia. It’s funded through exempt money.

Environmental Protection Agency – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 16,205
• Expect to Work: 1,069
• Furloughed: 15,136

Note: Some laboratory staff stays on the job, as well as emergency responders (responding to environmental emergencies) and a few other staffers in other divisions. Most EPA operations halt.

Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: 1,231
• Expect to Work: 1,016
• Furloughed: 215

Note: Serving the District of Columbia, the court’s mission is to enhance public safety, prevent crime and reduce recidivism.

USDA – Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 1,363
• Expect to Work: 171
• Furloughed: 1,192

Note: SNAP — food stamps — continue at least for one month. But WIC, a separate program for pregnant women and children, would shut down. WIC affects 9 million people per month according to their government website.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 2,164
• Expect to Work: 107
• Furloughed: 2,057

Note: Remaining staff would mostly be in the field division, which helps people file employment discrimination claims. Source

USDA – Risk Management Agency – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 430
• Expect to Work: 0
• Furloughed: 430

Note: RMA will not maintain any activities during a government shutdown. RMA will not maintain any staff to either pay contractual obligations or perform any regulatory functions such as editing data.

International Boundary and Water Commission – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: 188
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Operations office will close, engineering office will close, Operations department will continue to operate critical functions.

USDA – Office of Budget and Program Analysis – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: 2
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Only the director and associate director would remain to manage continued activities.

Federal Labor Relations Authority – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 130
• Expect to Work: 4
• Furloughed: 126

Note: Of the approximate 130 current Agency employees, four employees, which consist of the FLRA Chairman, two Authority Members and the GC, are deemed necessary. Source

NASA – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 18,250
• Expect to Work: 367
• Furloughed: 17,883

Note: No tours or public access to NASA facilities; NASA Television/website goes dark. Personnel responsible for protection of property or life, such as mission control, will still report.

Election Assistance Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 26
• Expect to Work: 0
• Furloughed: 26

Note: No one would research improving federal elections or provide payments to states for improving their election systems.

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 40
• Expect to Work: 3
• Furloughed: 37

Note: No federal employees would investigate industrial chemical spills/accidents that happen during the shutdown. Current investigations would be frozen, including investigation of the West Fertilizer explosion which killed 15 people in April. (Texas could not determine a cause, so the federal investigation is significant.)

USDA – Office of the Chief Economist – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: 0
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: No activities of OCE involve law enforcement, health, safety, life, or property. OCE has no funds available to finance activities other than appropriations. Consequently, no OCE employees are considered exigency employees.

Social Security Administration – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 62,343
• Expect to Work: 44,337
• Furloughed: 18,006

Note: Necessary implication act allows for partial functionality.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 402
• Expect to Work: 225
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Museum will be closed to the public.

Treasury – Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 483
• Expect to Work: 35
• Furloughed: 448

Note: Most tax duties will continue, but processing of requests for new licenses, label approval and manufacture of non-beverage products would cease.

Department of Commerce – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 46,420
• Expect to Work: 6,186
• Furloughed: 40,234

Note: Most research activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be suspended; U.S Census Bureau activities will be suspended.

Department of Veterans Affairs – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 332,025
• Expect to Work: 317,801
• Furloughed: 14,224

Note: Most employees at the VA are funded through multi-year and other types of appropriations. That is why such a large percentage are expected to work.

Department of Education – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 4,195
• Expect to Work: 212
• Furloughed: 3,983

Note: Most Department of Education employees are not excepted because the department, which is not among the largest in Washington, does not administer direct education programs. Those are done at the state level. Most of the excepted employees would work to continue administering Direct Loan and Pell Grants with the help of contractors who have already been paid.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 680
• Expect to Work: 37
• Furloughed: 643

Note: Minimum level of oversight and surveillance of the futures markets, clearing operations and intermediaries is maintained. However, the vast bulk of the CFTC’s oversight and surveillance functions will cease during a lapse of appropriations.

USDA – Research, Education and Economics – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 10,190
• Expect to Work: 4,000
• Furloughed: 6,190

Note: Market news reports, NASS statistics, and other agricultural economic and statistical reports and projections would be discontinued; Research facilities would be closed except for the care for animals, plants and associated infrastructure to preserve agricultural research.

Executive Office of the President – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 1,701
• Expect to Work: 436
• Furloughed: 1,265

Note: Many entities exist under the EOP. A few of them include: Office of Budget and Management, Council of Economic Advisors, Office of the First Lady and Office of the White House Counsel.

International Boundary Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 8
• Expect to Work: 1
• Furloughed: 7

Note: Maintenance of the US/Canada border provided by the U.S. Section of the IBC. Phone calls will be forwarded to the Acting Commissioner. All other functions will cease.

Department of Labor – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 16,304
• Expect to Work: 2,954
• Furloughed: 13,350

Note: Largest division staying in business would be Worker Compensation Programs, which keeps most staff during a shutdown. Mine Safety and the Inspector General’s offices are both at half strength. The rest would be mostly furloughed, including OSHA and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (unemployment numbers). BLS can bring in a minimal staff to get out major indicators if OMB orders. It’s unclear whether they’d do that for September unemployment numbers set for October 4. Source

Treasury – Financial Crimes Enforcement Network – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 345
• Expect to Work: 30
• Furloughed: 315

Note: Its mission is safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat money laundering. Significant agency activities that will continue include: Providing investigative support to law enforcement investigations; addressing dissemination issues; continuing computer operations to prevent loss of data; and maintaining minimal telecommunications. Source

Denali Commission – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 14
• Expect to Work: 14
• Furloughed: 0

Note: It’s independent federal agency designed to provide critical utilities, infrastructure and economic support throughout Alaska. All employees are exempt.

Corporation for National and Community Service – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 610
• Expect to Work: 72
• Furloughed: 538

Note: It’s core programs are Senior Corps, AmeriCorps and the Social Innovation Fund. Previously awarded grants and cooperative agreements will not be affected by the absence of current appropriations. However, no new grants will be awarded during this period and program and grants staff will not be available to provide assistance to grantees.

Peace Corps – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: 1,055
• Expect to Work: 428
• Furloughed: 627

Note: It would be logistically difficult for the Peace Corps to cease its operations overseas. The agency would wait at least 15 days to begin winding down those operations.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 1,460
• Expect to Work: 67
• Furloughed: 1,393

Note: Inspections, market monitoring, and electric grid monitoring continue.

Kennedy Center – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: 50
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: In the event of a shutdown, the Kennedy Center will continue its nonappropriated functions and honor all nonappropriated fund contracts, including planned performances, educational activities and employment activities for its approximately 1,150 trust employees. Source

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 8,709
• Expect to Work: 349
• Furloughed: 8,360

Note: In a switch from previous shutdown plans, new mortgages could be endorsed by the FHA, which backs a large percentage of US loans, particularly for first-time home buyers.But that ability would only be temporary. Loan processing would be drastically slowed.

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 192
• Expect to Work: 192
• Furloughed: 0

Note: In FY 2013, SIGAR was funded by multi-year appropriations which expire September 30, 2014. SIGAR will continue to fund agency operations during a lapse in funding through the use of carryover funds. If the period of funding lapse exceeds 61 days the carryover funds available, SIGAR will initiate implementation of this plan.

Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: If Congress failed to pass a federal budget or a continuing resolution for fiscal year 2014, FCSIC would remain open during a government shutdown and its employees would report to work.

Civilian military workers (Department of Defense) – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 800,000
• Expect to Work: 400,000
• Furloughed: 400,000

Note: Half of civilian workers for the military will be furloughed as soon as a shutdown goes into place. Those remaining on the job would be paid retroactively after the shutdown ends. Those furloughed would receive retroactive pay only if Congress votes to pay them after the fact.

United States African Development Foundation – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 66
• Expect to Work: 5
• Furloughed: 61

Note: Grants are fully obligated, so recipients remain operational.

General Services Administration – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 11,821
• Expect to Work: 4,094
• Furloughed: 7,727

Note: GSA oversees the business of the U.S. federal government. Its policies cover travel, property and management practices. In the absence of appropriations, GSA owned and leased buildings will remain open and operate in “weekend mode.” Source

USDA – Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 743
• Expect to Work: 528
• Furloughed: 215

Note: GIPSA would continue to provide inspection and weighing services that are supported by user fees.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Funded by no-year appropriations; will remain mostly open until prior year funds are exhausted.

Treasury – Office of Inspector General – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 181
• Expect to Work: 27
• Furloughed: 154

Note: From their contingency plan: “In the event of a lapse in funding, the OIG would suspend most operations (including audits) except those required by law. “

USDA – Food Safety and Inspection Service – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 9,633
• Expect to Work: 8,415
• Furloughed: 1,218

Note: Field inspection of meat, poultry and egg products continue.

Treasury – Bureau of Fiscal Service – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 1,370
• Expect to Work: 979
• Furloughed: 391

Note: FMS will continue to provide resources necessary to support disbursements to Social Security recipients, maintain government-wide accounting activities, as well as activities related to borrowing and tax collection. In addition, FMS will continue the Debt Collection Program activities.

Farm Credit Administration – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: FCA operates as a nonappropriated agency with a permanent, readily available, revolving fund. As such, FCA is not reliant on the passage of annual appropriation legislation for its operating expenses or ongoing operations.

Department of Transportation – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 55,468
• Expect to Work: 36,987
• Furloughed: 18,481

Note: FAA remains near full functionality (including air traffic controllers and safety responsibilities).

Export-Import Bank of the United States – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 409
• Expect to Work: 17
• Furloughed: 392

Note: Export-Import Bank has 409 employees. In the event of a furlough, the ban expects to retain 17 employees (4.1% of Ex-Im Bank’s workforce) and three contractors.

National Archives and Records Administration – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 3,184
• Expect to Work: 1,252
• Furloughed: 1,932

Note: Established in 1934, this agency preserves and documents vital government and historical records.

USDA – Departmental Management – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: 165
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Emergency response continues, protection of federal lands continues, protection against cyber security continues.

Udall Foundation – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Education activities continue; US institute closes completely.

Individual congressional offices – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Each member of Congress determines which of his or her staff remains on the job during a shutdown. The law governing shutdowns allows for workers who support a constitutionally mandated function (such as legislating) to work after funding has lapsed.

Federal Communications Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 1,754
• Expect to Work: 38
• Furloughed: 1,716

Note: During a shutdown, all FCC activities other than those immediately necessary for the protection of life or property will cease. Source

National Gallery of Art – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: During a lapse in federal funding, the gallery and its grounds, including the Sculpture Garden, will be closed to the public. All public programs and events will be canceled.Source

Small Business Administration – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 3,516
• Expect to Work: 1,329
• Furloughed: 2,187

Note: Disaster loan program and the IG open; everything else closed.

Department of State – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: Consular operations will continue if the government shuts down, which means that people would be able to get visas and passports. However, there is an exception is for passport offices that are located in buildings that are otherwise shutdown, so some people may see delays in their applications. Travel plans for State Department personnel will mostly be put on hold, as will all new employment offers. The State Department has not released exact numbers of furloughs, but in previous shutdowns, furloughs were felt more heavily at the department’s headquarters in Washington than at posts overseas. The State Department contingency plan did not list the total or furloughed number of employees at the department.

Overseas Private Investment Corporation – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 240
• Expect to Work: 240
• Furloughed: 0

Note: Commitments of new loans, loan guarantees and Political Risk insurance will not take place during shutdown not because of a hiatus in appropriations, per se, but because a temporary reauthorization provision dependent on the appropriations process will lapse during the shutdown.

Department of Health and Human Services – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: 78,198
• Expect to Work: 37,686
• Furloughed: 40,512

Note: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would continue large portions of Affordable Care Act activities, including coordination between Medicaid and the Marketplace, as well as insurance rate reviews, and assessment of a portion of insurance premiums that are used on medical services. In the short term, the Medicare Program will continue largely uninterrupted.

National Labor Relations Board – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 1,611
• Expect to Work: 11
• Furloughed: 1,600

Note: Case handling, outreach and information office is closed.

US Commission of Fine Arts – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 10
• Expect to Work: 0
• Furloughed: 10

Note: CFA activities are classified as non-exempt.

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 1,600
• Expect to Work: 989
• Furloughed: 611

Note: Broadcasters within the BBG network include the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Total employees and total furloughed are rough, based on percentages. Most broadcasting activities would continue.Closed/Not able to functionFederal Election Commission3466340An independent regulatory agency, the FEC discloses campaign finance information, enforces the laws on campaign contributions and oversees the public funding of presidential elections. Furlough projections based on 2011 numbers: Source

Department of Justice – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 114,486
• Expect to Work: 96,744
• Furloughed: 17,742

Note: An enormous federal bureaucracy, the Department of Justice is comprised of 40 components. Many workers are excepted as a matter of public safety because they work in law enforcement. The majority of workers at the FBI, the ATF, the Bureau of Prisons, the DEA and other agencies within the Department of Justice would report to work. But there would be effects. US Attorneys, for instance, would curtail a good portion of civil litigation. The US Antitrust division would not prepare any new proceedings.

Treasury – Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 94,516
• Expect to Work: 8,752
• Furloughed: 85,764

Note: All the following would cease in a shutdown: All audit functions; examination of returns and processing of non-electronic tax returns that do not include remittances; non-automated collections; legal counsel; taxpayer services such as responding to taxpayer questions (call sites); information systems functions (except as necessary to prevent loss of data in process); all planning, research, and training and development activities. Source

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board  – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: 5
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: All staff furloughed except for the full-time chairman and four part-time board members.

American Battle Monuments Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: N/A
• Expect to Work: N/A
• Furloughed: N/A

Note: All sites worldwide will be closed to the public.

Smithsonian – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 4,202
• Expect to Work: 688
• Furloughed: 3,514

Note: All museums would close. Excepted employees include those who protect the collections, feed the animals, etc. Volunteers aren’t allowed to help out. Of, 4,202 employees, 688 would be expected to work. 2013 contingency plan.

Department of Energy – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 13,814
• Expect to Work: 4,230
• Furloughed: 9,584

Note: All employees will continue to work until funds are exhausted.

Federal Trade Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 1,178
• Expect to Work: 285
• Furloughed: 893

Note: All commission employees shall be furloughed except those performing work to address a threat to human life or property; those involved in the orderly shutdown of agency operations; and those otherwise allowed by operation of law. Source

Department of Interior – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 72,562
• Expect to Work: 13,797
• Furloughed: 58,765

Note: All areas of the National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Systems would be closed and public, access would be restricted. The Bureau of Land Management would terminate all non-emergency activities on the public lands. The scientific work of the U.S. Geological Survey would be halted or conducted in a custodial manner. Only those activities needed to respond to emergency situations would be conducted by the Office of Surface Mining. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement would continue to ensure the safety of drilling and production operations and issue drilling and other offshore permits; however, renewable activities and five-year plan work would be terminated. Most activities at Bureau of Indian Affairs agency, regional and headquarters offices would be suspended. Activities to continue required payments to beneficiaries would continue. The Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians would maintain minimum operations necessary to issue checks to beneficiaries. Bureau of Reclamation activities related to continuing.” Source

Active duty military (Department of Defense) – Open/Functions continue

• Total Employees: 1,400,000
• Expect to Work: 1,400,000
• Furloughed: 0

Note: All active duty military remain on the job. They will receive paychecks October 1. But if a shutdown lasts until October 7, that could affect their next paychecks. Those paychecks could be delayed until after a shutdown.

Federal Maritime Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 120
• Expect to Work: 0
• Furloughed: 120

Note: Commission activities will be completely shut down by 12:00 p.m. ET Tuesday.

Financial Management Service – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 1,370
• Expect to Work: 735
• Furloughed: 635

Note: A bureau of the U.S. Treasury, the FMS operates the federal government’s collections and deposit systems, among other duties. All employees must report for duty on the first work day of shutdown. If an appropriations bill has not been approved, non-excepted staff will be given furlough notices and dismissed until funding is approved by Congress. Source

International Joint Commission – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 20
• Expect to Work: 1
• Furloughed: 19

Note: Virtually all IJC work will cease, U.S. Chair will be excepted to make emergency decisions.

Postal Regulatory Commission – Partially Closed/Shutdown

• Total Employees: 70
• Expect to Work: 8
• Furloughed: 62

US Postal Service Inspector General – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 1,136
• Expect to Work: 19
• Furloughed: 1,117

United States Access Board – Closed/Not able to function

• Total Employees: 29
• Expect to Work: 0
• Furloughed: 29

USDA – Agricultural Marketing Service – Open/Mostly open

• Total Employees: 2,696
• Expect to Work: 2,272
• Furloughed: 424