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DHS shutdown looms as Johnson navigates GOP divide over stopgap solutions

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6 days ago

A partial government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is all but guaranteed unless the Senate rams through a short-term extension of current funding levels sometime on Thursday.But avoiding a DHS shutdown means the same measure must also pass the House of Representatives, where success will depend on delicate political maneuvering by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to persuade a House Republican Conference with varying ideas of what a path forward should look like."It would have to be for 60 or 90 days, I would think," said Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., a member of the co...

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