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A DHS shutdown is coming. Why travelers should brace for impact
About 90% of DHS employees will work without pay during the shutdown, risking disruptions to air travel security and emergency response, officials say.
- At midnight Friday, funding for the Department of Homeland Security expired, prompting the White House to order an orderly shutdown starting Tuesday.
- Senate Democrats blocked funding by demanding immigration-enforcement guardrails after the Minneapolis killings, and a procedural vote failed, leaving a two-week funding patch to expire at midnight Friday.
- More than 90% of DHS's 272,000 employees will keep working, with about 20,000 furloughed and about 44,500 staffers paid through other appropriations plus a $165 billion One Big Beautiful Bill infusion.
- TSA workers will work without pay, potentially causing longer airport security lines, while DHS employees working without pay and agencies like FEMA and the U.S. Coast Guard face strained readiness.
- DHS remains the lone major agency still unfunded for fiscal year 2026 through September 30, and with Congress on recess until Feb. 23, a quick fix is unlikely, the White House said.
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The new partial paralysis in the United States affects, among other things, the agency responsible for screening passengers and baggage at the country's airports.
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Partial government shutdown hits DHS
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