As you’ve probably heard, late last month Donald Trump threw a presidential fit over the fate of his ridiculous border wall, shutting down the government and refusing to sign legislation to fund it until Democrats give him $5 billion for a structure he’s simultaneously claimed is “desperately needed” and also already mostly built and paid for by Mexico. In the 13 days since, federal workers have been unable to pay their rents, Native American communities have gone without medicine, water, and groceries, and unmanned national parks that aren’t physically barricaded have overflown with garbage and feces. (“There is more trash and human waste and disregard for the rules than I’ve seen in my four years living here,” Dakota Snider, a Yosemite Valley resident, told the Associated Press.) On Wednesday, the Smithsonian Institution, which managed to scrape together unused funds to keep its 19 museums and zoo open over the holidays, ran out of money, and the attractions will remain shuttered subject to the president’s whims. Happily, tourists visiting the District of Columbia will be able to visit at least one federal site that has somehow, through sheer luck, found the funds to reopen:

Trump’s last-minute demands for billions in border-wall funding triggered the partial federal government shutdown that closed national parks and facilities late last month—but his namesake hotel in the nation’s capital will see its own National Park Service site reopen this week.

The Old Post Office tower, which shares facilities with the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, is slated to reopen by Friday thanks to funding from the General Services Administration. G.S.A. owns the facility, which once served as the headquarters of the U.S. Post Office. The agency inked a 60-year lease with the Trump Organization in 2013 to open a hotel on the site, including maintaining public access to the 270-foot observation tower.

According to the N.P.S. contingency plans for a budget lapse, individual park units can enter into agreements with “local governments, cooperating associations and/or other third parties” to continue “specified visitor services.” It is not clear whether the Trump Organization attempted to pay to reopen the facility itself. Multiple telephone calls and e-mails to representatives of Trump Hotels were not returned.

In a statement, a G.S.A. spokesperson explained: “The referenced facility remains open as the funds needed to operate the Old Post Office tower are not associated with the current fiscal year’s (FY 2019) appropriations bill. The overall operation of the tower was a part of the government’s lease signed in August 2013, and in response to the ‘Old Post Office Building Redevelopment Act of 2008.’” Strangely, though, not everyone is buying it! “The Trump admin is using your tax dollars to keep an @NPS site at his luxury hotel open while the rest of Americans are wading through garbage and locked gates,” Representative Bill Pascrell Jr. tweeted Wednesday. “The corruption and disgrace of this govt are without bottom.”