Q&A – Who Was & Wasn’t Paid During the DHS Shutdown?

The partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security which began on February 14th, due to Democrat demands to expose identifies of Border Patrol and ICE employees and to significantly limit their abilities to enforce the law. The DHS shutdown is the longest funding lapse on record for any federal government department - exceeding the record established just last fall – which is why increasingly even essential impacted federal government employees are exiting their roles.