From CNN, I'm Aaron Matheson, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, February 12th.

A shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is all but certain.

That's because Democratic Senators voted to block a funding bill for DHS,

and the move could impact whether employees at agencies like FEMA, TSA, and the Coast Guard get paid.

Senators are now leaving Washington for a week-long recess, pre-planned.

But GOP leader John Thune says they'll return if Democrats and the White House can reach

a deal on changes to federal immigration enforcement tactics.

Now ICE has been funded through 2029. So Democratic Senator

Peter Welch says holding up funding will do little to prevent the ICE and CPB operations

that concern his party most. Instead, he argues Democrats should focus on the policy at hand.

Should the president, should Homeland Security, should Christy Noem be implementing this

policy of mass deportation?

Only 14% of the people have been picked up and broadened into custody have serious criminal

records.

So what you're seeing is that this wholesale demand by Kristy Nome that they reach

quotas, like 3,000 a day, is that people are being picked up who are completely innocent, including

U.S. citizens.

We've got more news coming up, including a major blow to a long-standing U.S. climate policy.

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