{"id":54061,"date":"2025-10-01T02:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/54061\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:41:07","slug":"live-updates-us-government-on-brink-of-shutdown-after-last-ditch-senate-vote-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/54061\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: US government on brink of shutdown after last-ditch Senate vote fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you still visit national parks during shutdown? It dependspublished at 02:34 BST<\/p>\n<p>02:34 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is unclear if US National Parks will be open during a shutdown as the Department of Interior has not published its shutdown plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, when a shutdown loomed, the park service said it planned to close to visitors. That shutdown was averted and the plan didn&#8217;t come into effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But during the 2018-2019 shutdown in Trump&#8217;s first term, his administration kept the parks open although most workers were furloughed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Visitors hike the Mist Trail toward Vernal Falls on August 31, 2025 in the Yosemite National Park, California.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f00cd0a-f401-49a2-9b4a-72b5b0d72614.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yosemite National Park in California<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Conservation advocates hope the over 433 sites under the National Park Service will be closed in the event of a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know what happened last time park staff were forced to leave parks open and unprotected, and the impacts were disastrous,&#8221; Theresa Pierno, president of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Prehistoric petroglyphs were vandalized, battlefield artifacts were stolen, Joshua trees were cut down and illegal off-roading vehicles drove through fragile archaeological sites. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The damage was devastating and, in some cases, permanent. If the federal government shuts down, unfortunately our parks should too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can you still visit national parks during shutdown? It dependspublished at 02:34 BST 02:34 BST It is unclear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,176,61,60,174,175],"class_list":["post-54061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}