House leaders, Senate Democrats at odds over how to fund Homeland Security before deadline

Published May 03, 2016

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, for a procedural vote as Congress moves toward a spending bill for the Homeland Security Department hours before a shutdown was to begin. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (The Associated Press)

With a partial shutdown of the Homeland Security Department possible at week's end, Speaker John Boehner says the House wants to enter talks with the Senate on a final bill funding the agency. But Senate Democrats are not interested in joining those talks.

The Senate is holding a procedural vote Monday on the question of talks between the two chambers.

Congress late Friday cleared a one-week extension for the department after 52 House conservatives defied their leadership and helped scuttle legislation that would have given the agency a three-week reprieve.

House Republican leaders are demanding that Democrats begin negotiations on funding for the Homeland Security Department and President Barack Obama's unilateral actions on immigration.

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