Certain government sites will go offline over shutdown

From the Library of Congress to the FTC, several government agency websites will go offline for the government shutdown.

With the possibility of an American federal government shutdown looming next week as the result of the debt-ceiling crisis, at least some government websites are going dark, including the Library of Congress and the National Park Service.

It’s not exactly clear why some sites in Washington, DC, would go offline and others would stay online, nor is it clear how shutting down a government website would save any significant amount of money.