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Mar 19, 2026

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Lawmakers finally start negotiating an end to the DHS shutdown

Negotiators finally met in person Thursday, more than a month after funding first lapsed for Homeland Security.

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White House officials and senators meet on DHS shutdown, a small sign of progress

A bipartisan group of senators met behind closed doors Thursday with White House border czar Tom Homan, a small sign of progress as lawmakers look to end a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security that began more than a month ago.

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Pence: Democrats’ DHS funding fight ‘unconscionable’ as US faces threats ‘at home and abroad’

Former Vice President Mike Pence says that the move by congressional Democrats to hold up Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding amid American military strikes on Iran and twin terror-style attacks in the U.S. is indefensible.

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