The Trump administration has escalated its political battle with the Democrats by firing federal workers in response to the government shutdown that began last week.

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats hold a news conference to address the ongoing government shutdown as partisan gridlock continues on Capitol Hill.

A lapse in the National Flood Insurance Program because of the U.S. government shutdown threatens to snarl home sales in the nation’s riskiest floodplains and leave some homeowners without coverage in the middle of hurricane season.

A s far as government shutdowns go, this one has so far lacked the round-the-clock chaos of its predecessors. There have been no dramatic late-night clashes on the floors of Congress, no steep stock-market plunges driven by panicked investors,

“The mood music hasn’t been helped by the government shutdown, which is now entering its 10th day. And the fear is that the longer it lasts, the worse the economic impact will be, as increasing numbers of workers miss paychecks from here,” Jim Reid and the team at Deutsche Bank said in a note this morning.

Frustration is growing inside the GOP as the government shutdown drags on with no end in sight and as military members are about to start missing paychecks.

The government shutdown began at midnight on Oct. 1 as Democrats and Republicans appeared to be nowhere close to reaching a funding deal.