{"id":200497,"date":"2026-02-15T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/limited-government-shutdown-likely-to-linger-for-at-least-10-days-as-congress-takes-break-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:19:10","slug":"limited-government-shutdown-likely-to-linger-for-at-least-10-days-as-congress-takes-break-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/limited-government-shutdown-likely-to-linger-for-at-least-10-days-as-congress-takes-break-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited government shutdown likely to linger for at least 10 days as Congress takes break – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

13% of federal civilian workforce is affected, although DHS \u2013 which spurred budget standoff \u2013 remains funded
A limited US government shutdown came into effect on Saturday \u2013 the third of Donald Trump\u2019s second term \u2013 after negotiations between the White House and Democrats in Congress failed to agree on new restrictions for federal immigration agents.
The shutdown affects about 13% of the federal civilian workforce and is confined to agencies under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which screens airline passengers.
The latest shutdown is unlikely to be lifted soon \u2013 US lawmakers have left Washington DC for a 10-day break.
However, Republican leaders in Congress have said that negotiations would continue, and that members should be ready to return to Washington subject to an agreement.
In November, a different set of issues caused a broader shutdown of the federal government for a record 43 days.
Despite the lapse in DHS funding, work at the department is not expected to be widely disrupted. But travelers in the US could see screening delays at airports. Disaster relief and immigration enforcement could also be affected if the funding stoppage becomes prolonged.
Transportation Security Administration<\/a> officers are expected to work without pay, but trade groups for the US travel industry and major airlines warned that the longer DHS appropriations lapse, the longer security lines at the nation\u2019s commercial airports could get.
During past shutdowns, disruptions to air travel tended to build over time<\/a>, not overnight. However, air traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Administration will receive paychecks as usual, reducing the risk of widespread flight cancellations.
One immediate effect of the shutdown was the cancellation of the official House delegation to the Munich security conference. Democratic members of the body, including Bronx Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, made the trip but in a personal capacity.
\u201cSome of us are going over anyway on our own dime to reassure and thank our allies,\u201d Connecticut Democrat Jim Himes posted on X<\/a>.
Colorado Democrat Jason Crow told NBC News<\/a> that Republican House speaker Mike Johnson had ordered the hotel reservations, military flights and credentials to the conference to be cancelled.
Ocasio-Cortez said she was attending because Democrats \u201cwant to tell a larger story, that what is happening is indeed very grave, and we are in a new era, domestically and globally\u201d.
At the center of the dispute are demands by Democrats for new restrictions on immigration agents following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis last month by federal immigration agents. The restrictions include mandating that agents perform operations without face masks and first obtain judicial warrants to make home arrests \u2013 demands Republicans largely reject.
However, the shutdown does not halt Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Protection operations because they were amply funded as part last year\u2019s budget bill.
Ahead of the shutdown, the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, criticized his counterpart, House speaker Mike Johnson, for adjourning Congress rather than keeping lawmakers in Washington to continue negotiations.
\u201cWe\u2019ve drawn a hard line in the sand on behalf of the American people, and we\u2019re not going to allow the Congress to cross it,\u201d Jeffries told reporters on Friday. \u201cICE needs to be dramatically reformed. Period. Full stop.\u201d
After Democrats rejected a White House offer on Thursday, the Senate minority leader called it \u201cnot serious, plain and simple.\u201d
Schumer later posted a video on X<\/a> that showed federal immigration agents pushing people to the ground and pepper-spraying them. \u201cThis is why Democrats voted NO on more funding for ICE. And we will continue to do so until ICE is reined in and the violence ends.\u201d
But the Senate majority leader, John Thune, said: \u201cWhat it appears to me, at least at this point, is happening is the Democrats, like they did last fall, they really don\u2019t want the solution. They don\u2019t want the answer. They want the political issue\u201d.
Donald Trump told reporters Friday: \u201cWe\u2019re talking, but we have to protect law enforcement. I know what they want, I know what they can live with. The Democrats have gone crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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