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On 20 January 2018, amid the hue and cry of a federal government shutdown taking effect thanks to failure on Congress to reach a bipartisan deal on a short-term spending bill, the two sides passed blame back and forth over the Senate floor like a hot potato. Fox News reported that the sticking point for Democrats was the March 2018 expiration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows a measure of respite for young people who were born outside the United States and were brought to the country as children and who, in many cases, have spent years maneuvering a backlogged immigration system in order to be able to apply for citizenship: The Republican-controlled White House went so far as to change the outgoing message on the White House telephone comment line (202-456-1111) to an unprecedented message blaming Democrats: The existence of the message was confirmed by various reporters: We called and were able to confirm for ourselves that this was indeed the White House's outgoing telephone message on 20 January 2018. If no deal is reached by 22 January 2018, thousands of federal employees will be placed on unpaid furloughs, as CNN reported: Members of Congress, however, will still receive full pay.
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