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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

DHS funding freeze now longest partial government shutdown in US history

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Travelers wait in security lines on Friday at JFK airport in New York as hundreds of TSA agents quit or worked without pay. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the fourth-largest agency in the US government, became the longest partial shutdown in US history on Sunday.

If the now six-week partial shutdown continues after the weekend, it will also become the longest of any shutdown, surpassing the impasse late last year that dragged on for 43 days.

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