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unless it includes major changes to its homeland security provisions, including constraints on DHS's immigration enforcement activities and more oversight.

That's teeing up a potential government shutdown this coming weekend, something that many Senate Democrats had initially sought to avoid after last year's record-setting funding lapse.

Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar criticized the behavior of ICE and U.S.

Border Patrol

and called on her colleagues across the aisle to work with Democrats.

Klobuchar stopped short of joining other Democrats in calling for abolishing ICE.

Voting against the DHS funding measure would do little to rein in immigration enforcement in the short term, given that last year's tax and spending package set aside more than $4 billion to hire and train more Border Patrol agents.

Coming up, the U.S.

digs out after a major winter storm and a vaccine showdown as pediatricians take issue with the CDC's paired back shot recommendations for kids.

Those stories and more after the break.

Large swaths of the U.S.

remain covered in snow and ice this morning after a winter storm wreaked havoc from the southern Rocky Mountains to New England.

More than 800,000 Americans are currently without power, according to PowerOutage.us, with Tennessee and Mississippi hit especially hard.

The Northeast, Great Lakes and Central Plains are all expected to get more snow today, adding to pressure on power grids.

The harsh weather has also forced major oil and natural gas-producing regions to shut up shop, further stressing grids.

According to analysts at JPMorgan, about 250,000 barrels of daily crude production has been lost due to closures in Oklahoma and parts of Texas.

Travelers are also bearing the brunt of the storm, with tens of thousands of flights canceled yesterday and more than 4,000 canceled so far today.

Pediatricians are pushing back against the CDC's new and slimmed-down childhood vaccine schedule.

In its guidance out today, the American Academy of Pediatrics continues to recommend that children be vaccinated against 18 diseases, including hepatitis A and B, COVID-19, influenza, rotavirus, and the disease that causes meningitis and other infections.

Those six immunizations were dropped from the CDC's schedule for children earlier this month,