treat migrants at the southern border. tom homan is here live to weigh in. i am mike emanuel in for shannon bream. a live look at the national mall, hours away from the military themed july 4th celebration. this place will be packed tomorrow night, 24 hours from now, the fireworks show, that will still go on. the lincoln memorial, this is something we have not seen in a long time. the white house building this as a salute to america. in a few hours sometime overnight we are looking at a tank that will come to the lincoln memorial.
property, air traffic controllers, tsa security screeners, federal law enforcement, that will still go on. other groups agencies that have their own revenue stream or have user fees like the post office, the federal courts operate on the fees they collect. those will keep operating. if you have already getting social security benefits, medicare benefits, medicaid benefits, those checks will keep coming because it s fairly automated operation. now another thing of course is that next week at the end of next week or actually it is the 18th this year, is tax day. if the shutdown continues on into tax day, the irs when if there is a government shutdown, the irs will stop processing paper tax returns. they ll still process e-filing because that s done automatically but you just have to file by have that filing postmarked by midnight, april 18, to avoid a penalty.