This is a challenge for us to explain.
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(Smithsonian policy says that if a shutdown occurs on a Friday night, the museums can STAY OPEN through the weekend and close on Monday!)
Furloughed workers might not have to worry about what they'd have to do until Wednesday.
One intangible is the loss of productivity, in the hours that agencies spend shutting down their operations. There's a protocol.
Mulvaney says the Obama admin "chose to make it worse" by closing national parks, etc.