your district borers washingtde washington. you have a lot of constituents who work for or around the government. what are they feeling? in is a bad deal for america. it s particularly burdensome on the district that i represent, the fourth congressional district in margin. these are men and women who go to work every day in service of the american people. they are food inspectors who are going to be off the job, people who work for tsa and do custom inspections at the port of bat mo the border and they ll be off the job. i believe there was a bill that was passed unanimously for back pay funding for those people in maryland. it s because they ve got a lot of people that work in their districts. these folks in maryland are the ones doing the job of the federal government, but at least
be affected, trace? we mentioned 400,000 plus employees will work with no pay. an additional 400,000 employees will be furloughed. no work, no pay until their departments are funded. most affected will be the department of housing and urban development and nasa where 95% of the staff will be out of work. here s where it affects you. most national parks are shut down. you can t file taxes because the irs is closed. so the state department is close. you re likely still able to get a passport and some environmental food inspectors, but not that many. so it s really unclear how that affects food safety. also if you re planning on visiting things like the national zoo, national archives and smithsonian, you probably should have a plan b in place. shep? shepard: thanks, trace. jordan fabian now, white house correspondent for the hill newspaper in palm beach where
put a monitoring system for looking for dangerous asteroids on hold for two weeks reportedly. a big one is expected to brush by earth on february 4. as for the 417 national parks the administration wants to keep limit td access where ever possible. services would be reduced in all 19 of the smithsonians museums would shut doors after this weekend. beyond that, not everybody would be out. for example in the military there s a lot of worry about the impact. there would be some discomfort no doubt for military families. if the pay was delayed. other benefits. but congress has previously gone out of the way to keep that from being to agree jous. and the troops would stay on duty. indeed, roughly 1.9 million government workers would keep at it. since their jobs are essential. air traffic controllers, security officers, food inspectors, prison guards. social security checks would go out as would be expected for the
security officers, food inspectors, prison guards, social security checks would also go out as would be expected for the senior population out. there the post office would remain open. in virtually all of these cases, people would be working without pay until the shutdown is over. that could cause them some difficulties, undeniably. and it could all be pricey for us, too. one current estimate, shutting down the government would cost taxpayers $6 billion a week. let s bring back our panel, maria, jack, eugene, air is sar. the president weighed in. a minute ago he tweeted, democrats are far more concerned with illegal immigrants than they are with our great military or safety at our dangerous southern border. they could have easily made a deal but decided to play shutdown politics instead.
being too egregious and troops stay on duty. air traffic controllers, security officers, food inspectors, prison guards, social security checks also go out as is expected for the senior population. the post office would remain open. in all of these cases, people would be working without pay until the shutdown is over. that could cause them difficulties, undeniably and it could be pricey for us, too. one estimate costs taxpayers $6 billion a week. tom foreman, thank you so much. this shutdown punctuates a milestone for this president. it s his first year in office. put this in perspective. the professor of international politics at city university in london live at this hour. let s start with this news of the hour. this government shutdown here in