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Senate Rejects Homeland Security Funding Bill, Teeing Up Partial Government Shutdown

HeadlineFeb 13, 2026

On Capitol Hill, senators failed to advance a bill Thursday that would have funded the Department of Homeland Security through September, setting up a partial government shutdown at midnight tonight. Democrats are seeking limits on how agents with ICE and other federal immigration agencies operate, including a ban on facial coverings, requiring agents to show ID and to obtain judicial warrants to enter private property, stricter use-of-force policies and more. A shutdown isn’t likely to impact the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies anytime soon, since Congress granted ICE $75 billion as part of Republicans’ so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.

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