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A new year, a new Congress in Washington, and Trump's shutdown enters its third week.

17 days and counting as President Trump refuses to back down on his budget demand of $5 billion for a border wall with Mexico.

And the government remains in partial shutdown.

Here are those departments.

Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, State Transportation, Treasury.

The ripple effects extending to the national parks, piling up with garbage, even human waste, turning them into health hazards.

The U.S.

Office of Personnel Management has advice for those federal employees on how to deal with their precarious financial situations.

They make this suggestion.

Federal employees should offer to perform chores in exchange for rent payments.

One example, this sample letter to a landlord that reads, in part, I would like to discuss with you the possibility of trading my services to perform maintenance, for example, painting carpentry work in exchange for partial rent payments.

Native Bronxite Cardi B now weighing in on the government shutdown.

President Trump moments ago canceling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's overseas trip to Brussels, Egypt, and the war zone that is Afghanistan, hours before the speaker and her congressional delegation were set to leave, saying in part, quote, in light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate.

He goes on to write, obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.

That fix only opens the government for three weeks, and it does not provide any new money for a border wall, as President Trump had demanded.

Those contractors aren't guaranteed back pay.

The IRS is going to be struggling to get returns out to some Americans on time.

It's clear Trump did not come out on top.

I'm not gonna spin it for you.

He did not cave.