After no budget deal was reached, the Minnesota state government shut down at midnight (CST).
No state police, no state parks, no drivers' licenses issued, no court cases, no schools, no hunting or fishing licenses, and on and on.
Parts of the government had already begun to shut down on Thursday with a midnight budget deadline, including some websites and dozens of highway rest stops on one of the biggest travel days of the year.
The budget impasse means that some 23,000 of the roughly 36,000 Minnesota state employees will be furloughed and state parks and campgrounds closed ahead of what is usually their busiest stretch of the year for the July 4 holiday.
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