http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/surprise-shutdown-also-disrupting-us-science-agencies-aren-t-closed

Hundreds of furloughed workers and others rallied in Washington, D.C. on 10 January to call for an end to the partial shutdown of the U.S. government.

Many U.S. government scientists and federally funded researchers breathed a sigh of relief last month after the partial shutdown of the U.S. government began. That’s because the budget impasse between Congress and President Donald Trump didn’t affect some of the largest federal research agencies, including the $39 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the $35.6 billion Department of Energy (DOE). Their spending had already been approved.