Key Highlights
- 1.
- Democrats walked away from a bipartisan deal to fund the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Education, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services on Thursday.
- That means those areas could see services limited or paused altogether due to a lack of funds. It could be a smaller repeat of the shutdown in October that went for 43 days over Democrat healthcare demands.
- This time, a payment crunch would be narrower.
- DHS Agents in Charlotte, N. C., on a mission.


