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What to Know About the Homeland Security Shutdown Starting This Weekend

About 95% of TSA employees deemed essential will work without pay amid stalled immigration reform talks, risking longer airport security lines nationwide, officials said.

  • Saturday, DHS funding is set to expire, with a split between senators over an aid deal, risking a partial shutdown.
  • Following testimony from Minnesota officials, Democrats say new restrictions are needed after two deadly Minneapolis shootings, seeking bans on masks, ICE oversight, and judge-signed warrants.
  • At the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, Sen. Ron Johnson clashed with Ellison, telling him `you did the exact opposite`, accusing him of encouraging harm, caught on microphones.
  • With senators departing for a week-long recess, Republicans voted for a DHS funding bill Thursday but the vote failed, risking a partial shutdown affecting TSA, FEMA, and the Secret Service.
  • Looking toward negotiations, Sen. Tammy Baldwin told reporters `We have been clear that we are open to negotiation, this isn't a my way or the highway deal, but whatever we agree on has to have some teeth and stop this chaos` and pressed for enforceable guardrails sent to the White House.
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What to know about the Homeland Security shutdown

Another shutdown for parts of the federal government has begun as a fight over proposed restrictions on President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda drags on.

·Kelowna, Canada
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This Friday at midnight the deadline for approving the funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has passed due to the Republican refusal in open negotiations with Democrats to stop immigration police after the recent murders of Good and Pretti in Minneapolis Trump's 'zar de la frontera' announces an end to the massive deployment of ICE in Minnesota that led to the killings of Good and Pretti No more funding for ICE.

·Spain
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Another budget closure by the U.S. government is consummated, the third in four months. In this case it is due to the inability of Republicans and Democrats to agree to increase control over immigration agents. The blockade is partial and limited; it will only affect the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency on which agencies such as the Secret Services, the Coast Guard, the Emergency Services Agency (FEMA) or the Transportation Se…

·Spain
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is about to experience a new fiscal paralysis, after the collapse of the ICE negotiations.

·Montreal, Canada
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Political Wire broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, February 11, 2026.
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