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The Department of Homeland Security is on track to shut down at the end of the day.
As NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports,
the Senate failed to advance the bill to provide further funding for the agency,
and there's no deal in sight.
Democrats say they'll only vote to fund DHS if there are significant changes to the department,
specifically, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, after two U.S.
citizens were fatally shot by officers in Minneapolis.
But this shutdown wouldn't mean a shutdown of ICE itself.
That agency received over $70 billion in separate funding from Congress last summer.
Lawmakers in both the Senate and House are expected to be out of town next week,
but they'll be on notice to return to D.C.
if there a deal.
Barbara Sprint and PR News, Washington.
A federal judge has ordered the U.S.