Ximena Bustillo

But if they can't come to an agreement, parts of DHS may see their funding slow down.

Now, this would be particularly things like the Transportation Security Administration or disaster response.

Now, Border Patrol and ICE got that infusion of cash last summer from Congress.

So they can continue to dip into that and work and get paid, even if there is a shutdown to the agency.

Democrats and some Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee criticized the tactics used by officers on the ground and the strategy of top Trump administration officials to curb illegal immigration.

The criticisms came as congressional funding is set to expire on Friday for the Homeland Security Department.

That's the cabinet department that houses immigration and customs enforcement, customs and border protection, and citizenship and immigration services.

The hearing underscored how deeply divided Republicans and Democrats remain on top-level changes to immigration enforcement in the wake of the shootings.

It suggested Congress is inching closer to another stopgap bill to fund the department in absence of a deeper agreement.

Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate agreed on a two-week extension for the funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

The hope is that it will allow for enough time to negotiate immigration enforcement reforms after federal agents killed two Americans in Minneapolis this month.

The two-week window is for negotiating just that part.

The rest of the government, including the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services and other agencies, will get funding through September.

So there's kind of three buckets of asks that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has outlined.

The first has to do with kind of how they're going out into communities and the ways that they're conducting arrests, particularly with warrants.

So there's two types of warrants, administrative and judicial.

Judicial have to be signed by a judge.

Administrative are basically the agency giving itself permission to enter your home.

And so Democrats want to get rid of that.