{"id":201753,"date":"2025-10-04T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201753\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T15:05:21","slug":"the-federal-government-is-shut-down-but-dc-is-still-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/201753\/","title":{"rendered":"The federal government is shut down, but DC is still open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be day four of the most recent federal government shutdown, but that does not mean Washington, D.C. is closed.<\/p>\n<p>It may be day four of the most recent federal government shutdown, but that does not mean the District is closed.\n<\/p>\n<p>While places like the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center and Ford\u2019s Theatre may not be open, Elliott Ferguson, the president and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/washington.org\/dcisopen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Destination D.C.<\/a>, told WTOP there are a lot of spots still welcoming locals and tourists in their front doors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new Milken Institute for Advancing the American Dream, which just opened. The Folger Shakespeare Library, which went through an extensive renovation, the National Museum of the Women of the Arts,\u201d Ferguson said of the buildings that are still open.<\/p>\n<p>While many locals only tour D.C. when friends or family are in town, Ferguson said it\u2019s the perfect time to see something new, like the Phillips Collection, Planet Word, or the Museum of Illusions.<\/p>\n<p>Of the listed sites, Ferguson said they\u2019re \u201ca lot of the great things in which visitors and Washingtonians can do while we, unfortunately, have to endure yet another government shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both the International Spy Museum and the Museum of the Bible are offering federal government employees 50% off general admission, while the National Building Museum is admitting government employees in for free. Visitors will need to bring their government ID.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to previously collected funds, the Smithsonian museums, research centers and the National Zoo will remain open to the public during the shutdown through Saturday, Oct. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Vernon, President George Washington\u2019s estate in Virginia, will also remain open as it does not receive government funding, and is not affected by the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">Get breaking news and daily headlines delivered to your email inbox by signing up <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">\u00a9 2025 WTOP. All Rights Reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may be day four of the most recent federal government shutdown, but that does not mean Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,116176,9292,451,51230,6049,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-201753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-destination-d-c","tag-government-shutdown","tag-headlines","tag-jimmy-alexander","tag-museums","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}