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They wanted changes at ICE.
The Senate broke off the DHS bill and sent the rest of the package back to the House.
That triggers a shutdown until at least Monday night.
Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson implored Republicans to vote yes on Monday.
That would end the shutdown after 70 hours.
But DHS is only funded for two weeks.
It is a partial shutdown.
That's because the Senate changed what the House passed last week.
The Senate approved five spending bills, but Democrats insisted on holding up the DHS bill.
They wanted changes at ICE.
The Senate broke off the DHS bill and sent the rest of the package back to the House.
That triggers a shutdown until at least Monday night.
Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson implored Republicans to vote yes on Monday.
That would end the shutdown after 70 hours.
But DHS is only funded for two weeks.
About 78% of the federal government is unfunded right now as the Pentagon, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Transportation.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a full spending bill for all of these departments and sent this over to the Senate.
Well, Democrats started to say, we need some changes with ICE.
So we want to defund the Department of Homeland Security, only fund it for a shortened period of time.
And so what they did is they broke off the DHS funding bill.