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Though funding for the department is set to run out early Saturday, officials said its essential functions would continue.
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After a heated Senate hearing that highlighted the partisan divide over immigration enforcement, Democrats voted to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
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Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.
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Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers and the White House strike a last-minute deal.
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