the public. the main number up there, of the roughly 240,000 or more based on this department, about 200,000 of them would stay on the job even with pay interruption. 200,000 people not getting paid to keep america safe. tom for man, thank you very much. back with us now, wolf blitzer and gloria borger. i want to bring up something important. more than 50 republicans voted against this measure to extend funding for homeland security for three weeks. these are republicans, by the way, who presumably have the support of their constituents, by and large probably do not want them to vote in favor of funding homeland security under these conditions. they re against president obama s executive actions on immigration. doesn t seem likely to change their opposition to those measures over the next week. right. these are people who as a matter of principle don t want to fund the department of homeland security even if it gives the
hours. we re joined by tom foerman. you ve been digging in. what could this hypothetical shutdown look like at midnight? it would appear to have a massive impact and think about that word, appear. what we re talking about here is a gigantic department. the department of homeland security budget of almost $65 billion for fiscal year 2016, workforce of more than 240,000 people. the biggest cabinet post out there, 16 different departments underneath it. what do they do? if you look at the board, they re in charge of immigration, border patrol, citizenship services. and involved in the tsa at the airport. all people checking for security. customs. also involved in things like fema, disaster response. anytime something terrible happens, this falls under the department of homeland security and secret service, federal law enforcement training, cyber security and a whole lot more. so all of these things look