When the government was shut down under President Obama due to a budget impasse, all non-essential services were also shut down. That meant that places like the Smithsonian Museum that required staff to sell tickets and provide security to the exhibits had to close.
To be sure the shutdown would hurt the public as much as possible (because that is what liberals do) armed security services were sent out to put yellow tape up across open-air venues. Venues that require no personnel to watch over it. The Obama government was paying security forces to keep people out of and off of venues normally open to the public in public. It cost nothing to leave those venues open and unmolested but cost thousands of dollars to keep people out.
The mainstream media did not report this fact. It only showed people being turned away. After all, it’s those mean-spirited Rebs causing the pain by not going along with an overspending budget.