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Up next, Kent Covington has today's news.

Many in Washington are bracing for another partial government shutdown,

with funding set to expire for the Department of Homeland Security tomorrow night.

Democrats are holding up funding as they demand changes to immigration enforcement,

but DHS also oversees things like TSA, airport security, and the Coast Guard,

and on Capitol Hill, acting TSA administrator Ha Nguyen McNeil pleaded with lawmakers.

Twelve weeks later, some are just recovering from the financial impact of the 43-day shutdown.

Many are still reeling from it.

We cannot put them through another such experience.

It would be unconscionable. Many TSA employees are deemed essential and were expected to continue

working through last year's record long shutdown with paychecks delayed. And Coast Guard, Admiral

Thomas Allen, told a House panel that a DHS shutdown would hurt morale among the guards roughly 56,000 members.

The uncertainty of missing paychecks negatively impacts readiness and creates a significant financial hardship for service members and their families.

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