The ongoing funding lapse at the Department of Homeland Security crossed into new territory Sunday when it became the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history.
The DHS shutdown is now in its 44th day, breaking the previous record when the department and the rest of the federal government went without funding from October until mid-November. This time around, the rest of the federal agencies and departments are funded.
Negotiations to re-open DHS were dealt a major setback Friday after House Republicans voted to pass a short-term funding bill that has no viable path in the Senate. That came hours after the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to fund all of DHS except Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. House GOP leadership rejected the bill, with Speaker Mike Johnson calling it “a joke.”
The House-passed bill to fund all of DHS is not likely to become law. The Senate has
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