Will Social Security checks go out? Are national parks open? Here's what to know when the federal government partially shuts down.

Social Security is considered mandatory, and funding for those programs is generally unaffected by a shutdown. Medicare benefits also continue uninterrupted. The federal government has enough money for Medicaid to fund the first quarter of the next fiscal year, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani pledged to fight for every dollar of federal funding during a CNN interview Monday evening, responding to President Donald Trump's threat to withhold $7.4 billion in annual federal support if the progressive candidate wins November's election.

Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown,” the Office of Management and Budget said in the memo, which the White House provided.

Washington is just hours away from yet another federal government shutdown. Prospects are looking rather bleak for a last-minute compromise in Congress to avoid federal closures beginning at 12:01 a.m.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights on Monday formally recommended barring Harvard University from receiving federal funding, three months after it accused the university of violating civil rights laws by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus.

The first government shutdown in six and a half years could happen soon. Here's which programs lose funding in Tennessee.

Without a deal in Congress by Tuesday, the government will run out of funding. But not all government programs would come to a halt.