(WHTM)– It is likely that by tomorrow, there will be no federal budget and no state budget. What does that mean for Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania is now three months behind schedule on its state budget, so most funding is not flowing from Harrisburg. If no budget compromise is struck by midnight tomorrow, the federal government will shut down.

Individuals with disabilities who rely on Medicaid gathered in Harrisburg on Monday to voice concern about the federal budget bill that they insist would cut dollars and programs.

There was a rally at the Capitol to protect state Medicaid dollars for those living with disabilities, already nervous about planned cuts. More so with a possible federal government shutdown.

“‘What the heck,’ my answer is we are the ones that are gonna get hurt,” disabilities advocate Josie Badger said.

“We’re really in uncharted territory here,” Human Services Secretary Val Arkoosh said.

Arkoosh called the budget cuts at both the state and federal levels unprecedented. She also concedes the specifics are not yet fully known, but said with confidence that it will not be good for individuals who rely on government programs.

“Programs like Medicaid and SNAP are supposed to continue at least for a period of time during a federal shutdown. But we have not gotten anything official yet about whether or not that federal funding would continue for those programs,” Arkoosh said. “We’ve got a good enough idea, at least in the Department of Human Services, that the impact is going to be terrible.”

State Democrats say they do know about the big and not-so-beautiful budget bill pushed by republicans that would reduce dollars for these folks and increase red tape and barriers to access.

“It’s unconscionable that we don’t provide money to support our most vulnerable, because when we do that, everybody in this society benefits,” State Rep. Joe Hohenstein (D-Philadelphia).

“We’ve got a good enough idea, at least in the Department of Human Services, that the impact is going to be terrible,” Arkoosh said.

Money for schools is also not flowing at the state level, and federal funds are a significant contributor. State money to counties has also been frozen, leading schools and municipal governments to take out loans or furlough workers.

“There’s a lot of doom and gloom that you hear, slashing and cutting, or terms that some people like to use, whereas I think you could also call it rightsizing and making sure that the people who truly need those benefits are getting those benefits,” State Rep. and Republican chairman of the appropriations committee Jim Struzzi (R) said.

Struzzi says Pennsylvania spent nearly 20 billion in human services last year and are looking at a $2 billion increase in this budget, a major sticking point in the standoff.

“We’re going to have to pay for that on top of the fact that we don’t have the revenues that we need to meet the current spending proposals that have been out there from the administration and House Democrats,” Struzzi said.

But partisanship matters not to folks like Badger, but people who are like her do.

“Unless legislators, decision makers have been in our shoes, they don’t realize how that can put a pause on our lives but our survival as well,” Badger said.

The government pays many state employees, and it is unclear what will happen to them if a shutdown were to occur. Pennsylvania and Michigan are the only states without budgets, and without a federal budget, the states would be in uncharted territory.