The Federalist
by Mollie Hemingway
January 9, 2014

In October 2013, House Republicans shut down the federal government in a last-ditch effort to thwart Obamacare. Benefits and downsides of such a shutdown aside, one of the most interesting aspects of it was the way the Obama administration chose to handle what kept operating and what didn’t.

Some 80 percent of federal employees continued to work during the shutdown. Grocery stores on Army bases in the U.S. were closed. The golf course at Andrews Air Force base was kept open. The World War II Memorial, which is an open-air memorial, was blockaded and staffed with security. The feds shuttered the Amber Alert web site. They wouldn’t let people view Mt. Rushmore from a distance. They tried to shut down the privately run Mt. Vernon.

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