article_snippet: Spending authority for the Homeland Security Department . was scheduled to end at midnight on Friday.
article_snippet: The agency came within hours of a partial shutdown last week but The House approved a one-week extension of funding that was later approved by voice vote in the Senate and signed into law by Barack Obama.
article_snippet: The drama began in December when the legislative branch passed a measure appropriating money to every single government agency through Sept. 30 but DHS, which DHS only funded through the end of February.
article_snippet: Yet after weeks of bickering, Boehner ultimately found Boehner last week  with few - . if any - viable procedural options to keep The agency open while . also satisfying conservatives who wanted a full fiscal-year funding bill to . block Obama's executive actions last year lifting the threat of .
article_snippet: Without the funding, The agency would have been forced to .
article_snippet: furlough about 30,000 employees, or about 15 percent of the . agency's workforce.
article_snippet: on the job without pay, including airport and border security .
highlights_snippet: Money for the department was scheduled to run out at midnight on Friday .
  