Some of these reduced services are pretty obvious: cuts to Medicaid, or reduced hours at National Parks. But many others are a bit more subtle and affect your life in countless tiny ways. But it all adds up.

• Cuts to Social Security staffing, which means very long lines when you need to fix that problem with your elderly mom's payments.
• A longer daily commute, as the federal funding for that highway expansion evaporated, robbing you of time with your family every single workday.
• Less effective meat inspections, so you end up getting food poisoning more often and have to burn a PTO day you could have used for a family getaway instead.
• Strangled medical research, which means that the cure your sister needs doesn't arrive in time.