Department of Homeland Security on verge of shutdown
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Congress is up against a deadline on allocating money to the Department of Homeland Security. If revenue isn't appropriated by Friday at midnight, the agency will have to lay off some non-essential workers.
The eleventh hour negotiations are happening because Republicans wanted to link DHS funding with the President's executive order on immigration.
Daniel Newhauser at The National Journal has been writing about the negotiations and joined MPR News' Kerri Miller to give us the latest update.
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