So what's happened basically is that the government was shut down for three days.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed.

On Monday, Senate Democrats agreed to a short-term spending bill that did not include a

resolution for DACA. So this will fund the

government through February 8th and basically split the fate of the

Dreamers into a separate conversation. The Republican stance on this is clear. So to get the

latest update on the news because it's been a really crazy couple of days, we decided to call

Suzanne Gamboa, she's a reporter with NBC News.com

NBC Latino Suzanne. How are you doing? How are you doing Suzanne? Well, you know, one thing is always

perspective, right? We have always have to think about how we might be doing in comparison to the people that are really impacted by all of this.

And I tell people now that I've had a crew in Washington by the fact that Congress has failed over all the time that I've been here now 17 years to come up with an immigration plan, right?

One of the things about, and you're saying this, you've been there since 2000 the dream act of 2001 was introduced in the

Senate ready for this one kids by Republican senator

orange hatch or and hat think about that so we're 17 Republican Senator Orin Hatch. Orin Hatch.

Think about that.

So we're 17, 18 years later.

Well now, not even talking about all the dreamers.

We're talking about DACA.

Exactly.

Can you just expand on that because I think that's one of the points that people are missing in all this because

you're talking about the DACA kids and I think a lot of people don't realize

that more than a million dreamers because of the cutoff age date aren't eligible for DACA and

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