When Tyler Ekeledo tugged on the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park’s visitor center doors Saturday morning, needing to use the restroom, they were locked.

It was one small and inconvenient sign of how the political fight in Washington is affecting people in Georgia.

“It’s definitely frustrating,” the 41-year-old from Snellville said.

No signs on the door notified visitors that the center was closed Saturday morning. People throughout the morning tugged on the doors, but the doors never budged. The bathrooms were open at 7:30 a.m. according to signage on the windows.

For visitors at the park Saturday, it was the small things they noticed, like using the restroom at the park’s visitor center or the parking lot closure that forced longer walks to the trailhead, that showed how t

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