Federal workers will be furloughed or made to work without being paid.
Hundreds of thousands of workers will be furloughed (sent home without pay, although by law they will be paid once they return to work). Others, like TSA officers and air traffic controllers, will keep working, but won’t get their paychecks until after the shutdown ends. This means significant hardship for federal workers and their families, plus major slowdowns when it comes to the government operations that keep the country running.

Social security and Medicare checks will still go out, but expect major customer service delays.
While Trump’s shutdown wouldn’t stop people who already receive social security or Medicare checks from receiving them, it would cause major bureaucratic delays for people that need help resolving an issue or need to apply for benefits.

Veterans should still be able to access their benefits, but Trump’s shutdown could cause administrative issues and delays.
The VA says that in the event of a government shutdown, key benefits and health care programs should not be affected, but as with Social Security and Medicare, furloughing workers could mean that veterans see delays when trying to navigate the system. Some minor programs, like career counseling and transition assistance programs, will shut down.

The United States Postal Service will keep running.
USPS is self-funded, so letters and packages will keep moving. But with Trump’s history of attacking the postal service, we need to stay vigilant and look out for ways he could twist the shutdown to justify further efforts to go after vote-by-mail.

WIC will have to stop accepting new applicants immediately, and SNAP will suffer if Trump’s shutdown goes long.
WIC, which supports women, infants, and children, would likely have to stop accepting new applicants almost immediately. SNAP benefits would continue for a short time, but a long shutdown could put families at risk.

Passport services will remain open, but Trump’s shutdown could cause delays.
The Bureau of Consular Affairs and its Office of Passport Services is designated as an essential service provider, and its operations are supported by the fees that we pay when we apply for a passport. That said, just as with almost every government agency, the general uncertainty of a prolonged government shutdown might cause delays.

Trump’s shutdown could threaten housing loan applications.
During a shutdown, the Federal Housing Administration could halt or slow application approvals. That means big delays for families waiting on mortgages, as well as for developers and homeowners seeking refinancing or rehabilitation funding. First-time buyers that rely on federally backed loans would likely be hit hardest.

National parks and other publicly administered sites will likely close.
National parks, museums, and monuments will potentially close. If they stay open, facilities will be left without maintenance, which could cause serious damage. That hurts not only families who want to visit, but also local businesses that depend on tourism.

Travellers could see long lines and major delays at airports.
Security lines may get longer if TSA workers call in sick because they’re not being paid. Past shutdowns have caused major delays at airports.

It's the 23rd day of the government shutdown. Most federal employees, whether still working or furloughed, have begun to miss paychecks. The House has been out of session since September 19 and shows no sign of returning to do any of the work for which they continue to be paid.

The Senate comes in a few days a week; votes on a few nominations and re-votes on the House's continuing resolution. When it fails, as it has every time so far (along with an alternative bill from Sen. Johnson which has also failed multiple times, most recently October 23), they head out for their usual 3 day weekends.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.