For the first time since the costly furloughs of the mid-90s, the U.S. government has partially shut down with Congress at a budget impasse:

For the first time in 17 years, Congress failed Monday night to agree on a new budget and refused to extend the current one. Without the authority to spend money, the executive branch on Tuesday morning started the process of temporarily mothballing facilities and suspending the many services the government provides.

Here is an overview of what’s still operating, what’s cut back and what’s shut down at the federal level:

Government Shutdown Services

What’s Affected by a Government Shutdown?

Below, find an overview of some of the government services and
operations that will be impacted until Congress passes a budget to
fund them again. For
detailed information about specific activities at Federal agencies,
please see federal government contingency plans.

• Vital services that ensure seniors and young children have access to
  healthy food and meals may not have sufficient Federal funds to serve
  all beneficiaries in an extended lapse.
• Call centers, hotlines and regional offices that help veterans
  understand their benefits will close to the public.
• And, veterans’ compensation, pension, education and other benefits
  could be cut off in the case of an extended shutdown.
• Every one of America’s national parks and monuments, from Yosemite to
  the Smithsonian to the Statue of Liberty, will be immediately closed.
• New applications for small business loans and loan guarantees will be
  immediately halted.
• Research into life-threatening diseases and other areas will stop and
  new patients won’t be accepted into clinical trials at the National
  Institutes of Health.
• Work to protect consumers, ranging from child product safety to
  financial security to the safety of hazardous waste facilities, will
  cease. The EPA will halt non-essential inspections of chemical
  facilities and drinking water systems.
• Permits and reviews for planned energy and transportations projects
  will stop, preventing companies from working on these projects.
  Loans to rural communities will be halted.
• Hundreds of thousands of Federal employees including many charged with
  protecting us from terrorist threats, defending our borders,
  inspecting our food, and keeping our skies safe will work without pay
  until the shutdown ends.
• Hundreds of thousands of additional Federal workers will be
  immediately and indefinitely furloughed without pay.

The following services that will continue during the government shut down:

• Social Security beneficiaries will continue receiving checks.

• The U.S. Postal Service will keep delivering mail.

• Active military will continue serving.

• Air traffic controllers, prison guards and border patrol agents willremain on the job.

• NASA Mission Control will continue supporting astronauts serving onthe Space Station.

In the meantime, 10th Ave’s Lost Lake is offering a discount for any government employee furloughed during the shutdown:

Lost Lake is offering 15% of food and drink for all Federal Government employees. We think the people running our National Park system, Centers for Disease Control, the FAA, Veteran’s Centers, NASA, EPA, Department of Defense, Consumer Product Safety Division, Department of Education, Dept of the Interior, etc, etc, are awesome, and we think it sucks Republican House members are causing them to be furloughed. So c’mon in and feel some Lost Lake love.