At the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., fences block the entrance to the stairs and posted signs announce, “Because of the federal government shutdown, all national parks are closed.” Similar signs hang at other federal government-run national parks and museums around the country, from the Statue of Liberty, in New York, to Yosemite National Park, in California, and even at the U.S. cemetery near the D-Day beaches at Normandy, in France. These locations—and many other government services—are closed because the U.S. government has partially shut down for the first time in 17 years.