Breaking down the government shutdown on a local level

MISSOURI — As the Federal Government pushes through its second day, Ozarks First is speaking to an expert about what is impacted and what isn't.

Andrew Crocker, a Political Science Professor at Ozarks Tech, says government shutdowns are happening more often in modern politics than before.

"Government shutdowns occur with some regularity over the course of modern political history. It is typical when you have different parties all in control of different parts of the government. This is kind of an unusual one in that one party does have full control, but the minority party is still finding a way to stick a stick in the spokes, so to speak, to prevent this process from going forward," Crocker said.

Crocker says there are parts of the government that have to continue, even when the money's