White House Orders Homeland Security Shutdown as Funding Lapses

The White House ordered the Department of Homeland Security to begin shutdown procedures as its funding from Congress expires at midnight — the third time parts of the US government will have shut down in the last six months.

The shutdown will affect DHS functions other than immigration and border enforcement, which are broadly covered through multi-year funding from the tax-and-spending bill passed by Congress last July. Other security-sensitive jobs will also be deemed essential, and those employees will report to work without pay.