The partisan showdown over funding the Department of Homeland Security comes to a head this week with the looming expiration of a stopgap funding bill.

 

Republicans have insisted on using a bill to fund DHS for the remainder of fiscal 2015 to block the executive actions aimed at allowing many illegal immigrants to stay in the country. Democrats have repeatedly refused to allow the bill to advance in the Senate.

 

DHS is operating on a continuing resolution that expires Friday. Much of its workforce could continue working even without funding authorization. 

 

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