
More than 70 percent of the Department of Homeland Security’s employees would continue to work if the government shuts down on Sunday although they will do so without pay, the department said on Thursday. The 72 percent--more than 185,000--of DHS employees required to work through a shutdown include Customs and Border Protection’s Border Patrol agents and Office of Field Operations Officers, Coast Guardsmen, customs enforcers, and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers. DHS warned that a shutdown could lead to longer…