Nevada’s national parks are expected to remain open if the government shuts down Friday night, but no visitor services would be provided — and workers would not be paid during a closure.

“Parks will be opened this time, and they weren’t before,” said White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. “There will be a bunch of different things compared to 2013, but don’t lose sight of the fact that we’re asking the military to work without pay. We are asking firefighters to work without pay.”

Keeping the parks open could avert some of the hardships imposed on Nevadans by the 16-day shutdown in 2013 when access to national parks was blocked. In one instance, the shutdown resulted in an elderly couple being temporarily evicted from their home because it was on in the grounds of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area east of Las Vegas.

The 2013 shutdown also immediately resulted in three Callville Bay Marina boat instructors losing their jobs and, at the time, threatened the employment of others who made their living on Lake Mead. Lake-related revenue also took a hit when tourists cancelled reservations made through companies with National Park Service Contracts.

Angry boaters hitched their crafts to their cars and proceeded up and down the Strip to protest Lake Mead’s closure.

Of the more than 24,000 people who work at the National Park Service, all but 3,298 will be furloughed if the government shuts down. That includes 694 for the NPS’s Pacific West Region, which covers Nevada.

Mulvaney also noted that wildland firefighters, the military, the border patrol, the Transportation Security Administration, the U.S. Post Office and the government-controlled, mortgage-finance agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, would also remain open. But he stressed that those workers would not be paid until after the shutdown.

Congress, though, passed a bill just before the 2013 shutdown that allowed the government to pay the military during that government closure. A similar bill would need to be passed to cover the coming the coming closure should it happen.

Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller introduced legislation in April that would allow the military to be paid in the event of a lapse in regular appropriations.

A potential shutdown is not expected to affect health care for veterans in Nevada. Congress provides funding for the Veterans Administration a year in advance, a practice known as advanced appropriations.

“We have an advance appropriation for fiscal year 2018 and will not be affected by a potential lapse in appropriations,” VA Southern Nevada Healthcare spokesman Charles Ramey assured the Nevada delegation staff in an email. “We will remain open for business, and continue normal operations in support of our Veterans.”

Mulvaney’s comments came as lawmakers scrambled to find a compromise that would keep the government open beyond midnight Friday.

Republicans proposed a measure to fund the government through February 16. The bill also would extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers nearly 69,000 kids in Nevada, for six years and would delay some taxes related to the Affordable Care Act.

The GOP-led House passed the legislation on Thursday with mostly Republican votes. But opposition from Senate Democrats leaves the measure short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Democrats have said that they want any legislation funding the government to include a provision addressing the status of young people brought to the country illegally as children. Also known as DREAMers, they were shielded from deportation under program put forward by former President Barack Obama. President Donald Trump announced that the program would end in March, leaving DREAMers uncertain about their future.

The possibility of a shutdown spurred Nevada Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen, who is running for Heller’s Senate seat, to sign on as a supporter of a bill that would prevent members of Congress from getting paid during a closure of the government.

“If Congressional leaders refuse to do their job and fail to work across the aisle, then lawmakers should either donate their paycheck or return it Treasury until the government is back up and running,” she said in a release. “I urge my Republican colleagues to work with Democrats on finding a bipartisan, long-term spending bill that fully addresses our country’s needs and avoids a costly, unnecessary shutdown.”