If the government shuts down, those affected can get $1 Miller High Lifes, $2 oysters, and free gougeres, among other specials.

Workers who feed, clean and keep the federal government secure are not guaranteed back pay, unlike furloughed federal workers.

The city is owed nearly $80,000. 

The five-week shutdown was an ethics minefield for furloughed federal workers. The Office of Government Ethics is finally offering advice.

The photo essay offers a different perspective on D.C.’s furloughed workers.

“Like many people, I’m frustrated by what’s happening and my heart goes out to these incredibly hard-working people who provide important service to our country, yet have had their lives, disrupted by circumstances, not of their doing,” Rodgers said in a statement.

The historic site shares a building with the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.

A somewhat definitive guide to what’s open and closed thanks to the feds these days.

“Regardless what happens at the federal level, D.C. government will be open for business,” says Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Chris Cox spends every day in the halls of the House of Representatives trying to get a bill passed.