The government shutdown is underway — and it could disrupt your daily life.
- Here’s how.
🚫 Many of Virginia’s 350,000 federal workers, including thousands in metro Richmond, likely won’t get paid.
- This includes “essential” workers and “excepted” employees, per the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
- It also includes the state’s 122,000 active-duty military service members.
- All will be eligible for backpay once the shutdown ends.
✈️ Flights could be delayed or canceled if air traffic controllers and TSA staff working without pay start calling in sick.
- Passport renewals processing could be delayed.
🌳 Most National Parks will remain open, but operate with limited or no staff.
- That includes Shenandoah National Park, which is operating with a skeleton crew during peak leaf peeping season, per Cville Right Now.
- And Maggie L. Walker’s Jackson Ward home, which had already dropped its tour schedule down to two days a week due to the Trump administration’s federal layoffs.
What won’t be affected:
📬 Mail: USPS doesn’t receive taxpayer funding for operating expenses, so it will continue as normal…