Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid And Senate Democrats Hold News Conference On Funding For Homeland Security

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 24: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) accuses Republican Senate leaders of manufacturing the possible shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol February 24, 2015 in Washington, DC. Democrats have successfully blocked the $39.7 billion funding legislation because it would also strip away the executive actions in which President Barack Obama eased the deportation threat for several million undocumented immigrants. If Republicans and Democrats can not work around the impasse then 30,000 DHS employees will go home February 28 and 200,000 more will work without paychecks until a solution is found. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)