US government shutdown, but parks, Statue of Liberty open on Monday

The Statue of Liberty will reopen on Monday even if the US government shutdown extends into the work week, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday, vowing to use state funds to keep the landmark monument in operation.

Dozens of other national parks and monuments were expected to remain partially or entirely closed after Congress failed to agree on a spending plan to keep the government running past a Friday midnight deadline.

In the hours leading up to the shutdown, the Trump administration worked on ways to keep hundreds of parks open without staff in an effort to avoid public anger, although it was unclear which ones would close.

"Not all parks are fully open but we are all working hard to make as many areas as accessible to the public as possible," US interior secretary Ryan Zinke said on Twitter on Saturday